Pipex upgrade - newsgroup downside

I am on solo 1000 lite (8mb / month) which has full newsgroup access. Pipex
customer services have just confirmed that when my account is upgraded to
2000 lite I will lose newsgroup access as the new lite services don't
include it. They gave me no options other than sending an e mail to
complain - apparently my taking the trouble to phone them doesn't count as
complaining !!

Bo**ocks

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:37:15 UTC, "Fred" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I am on solo 1000 lite (8mb / month) which has full newsgroup access. Pipex
> customer services have just confirmed that when my account is upgraded to
> 2000 lite I will lose newsgroup access as the new lite services don't
> include it. They gave me no options other than sending an e mail to
> complain - apparently my taking the trouble to phone them doesn't count as
> complaining !!
>
> Bo**ocks

Well, spend 10 euro a year on news.individual.net - you'll probably
spend more than that trying to get them to address your complaint!

Bob Eager <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

: Well, spend 10 euro a year on news.individual.net - you'll probably
: spend more than that trying to get them to address your complaint!

Or, if you want less than 50Mb/day, what's wrong with a $3.95 one-off
payment to www.teranews.com??

"Bob Eager" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:176uZD2KcidF-pn2-(E-Mail Removed)...

>
> Well, spend 10 euro a year on news.individual.net - you'll probably
> spend more than that trying to get them to address your complaint!

I have been having a little problem with news.individual.net the last couple
of days. I am seeing alot of RE: posts and not original articles.

"Fred" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am on solo 1000 lite (8mb / month) which has full newsgroup access. Pipex
> customer services have just confirmed that when my account is upgraded to
> 2000 lite I will lose newsgroup access as the new lite services don't
> include it. They gave me no options other than sending an e mail to
> complain - apparently my taking the trouble to phone them doesn't count as
> complaining !!

So if like me you have 512Kb Solo connection, and a line that wont take a 1mb
connection, you have to become a 'Lite' customer and loose Newsgroup access.


>
> Bo**ocks
>

Something of an understatement!


--

Michael Chare

Bob Eager wrote:

> Well, spend 10 euro a year on news.individual.net - you'll probably
> spend more than that trying to get them to address your complaint!
>

I've never paid a penny for my account with them. Is this a new charge?

"Silk" (E-Mail Removed) wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)
> Bob Eager wrote:
>
>> Well, spend 10 euro a year on news.individual.net - you'll probably
>> spend more than that trying to get them to address your complaint!
>>
>
> I've never paid a penny for my account with them. Is this a new
> charge?

Yes.

www.individual.net has the details.

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
Silk wrote:

> Bob Eager wrote:
>
>> Well, spend 10 euro a year on news.individual.net - you'll probably
>> spend more than that trying to get them to address your complaint!
>>
>
> I've never paid a penny for my account with them. Is this a new charge?

Compulsory from April 1st..

http://news.individual.net/
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aa

aa wrote:
> In news:(E-Mail Removed),
> Silk wrote:
>
>
>>Bob Eager wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Well, spend 10 euro a year on news.individual.net - you'll probably
>>>spend more than that trying to get them to address your complaint!
>>>
>>
>>I've never paid a penny for my account with them. Is this a new charge?
>
>
> Compulsory from April 1st..
>
> http://news.individual.net/

so which would be the next best free one then?

"johnydeath" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4230a69a$0$2763$(E-Mail Removed)...
> aa wrote:
>> In news:(E-Mail Removed),
>> Silk wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Bob Eager wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Well, spend 10 euro a year on news.individual.net - you'll probably
>>>>spend more than that trying to get them to address your complaint!
>>>>
>>>
>>>I've never paid a penny for my account with them. Is this a new charge?
>>
>>
>> Compulsory from April 1st..
>>
>> http://news.individual.net/
>
> so which would be the next best free one then?

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