Broadband Rip Off!

UK broadband is in a dire mess, we still have about 40% of the market to
still take up broadband within the UK and already ISP's are using traffic
shaping and port blocking suring peak times degrading our services at times
down to 56k levels. This is unnaceptable, imagine if the other 40% take up
broadband? Will it be 56k levels at all times? Our broadband is in a mess,
ISP's are oversubscribing and underestimating bandwidth useage in the UK. We
have fast (-ish, other countries are well ahead in speed and infrastructure
terms) connections and therefore faster services on offer.

Here is the details I am sending out to magazines, mp's etc etc.

Hi, I wondered if you could highlight this issue in your news section
somewhere? I have set up an e-petition online and am asking all the
magazines etc to publish info on it, PC Pro have interviewed me this morning
regarding this issue and so am hoping for a favourable article from them.

Please find the details below. Many thanks.

Please sign the petition, I have written to local MSP and am writing to MP,
also writing to all the magazines around to highlight the petition.

As you know the throttling going on just now is becoming a joke, there are
no ISP's that I am aware of that have not introduced throttling, and even
business users are now becoming victims. With on demand services of games,
movies and albums it is a serious underestimate of bandwidth useage on the
part of the isp's which is causing the throttling and NOT pirates as they
like to have most people believe.

What will happen if these on demand services sue the ISPs due to loss of
business? Why would we pay subscription fees to on demand service when we
cant download the products we are paying for? Will we all be left with no
connection at all? I find it ridiculous that we are being throttled
regardless of useage between the hours of 4pm and 1am, we are paying for a
full speed service and receiving at times the speed of dial up, this is
completely unethical and downright underhand behaviour on the part of the
ISP's.

There is also the green issue that the Government is so happy to enforce on
us, our pc's are now being left on overnight for days on end to get what we
are paying for, what is this doing to the environment?

If airlines are being done for overbooking and hotels etc, why are ISP's
not?

Can you imagine paying for every channel on Sky TV and they only broadcast
BBC1 between the hours of 4pm and 1am and still charge you for full channel
listings? Is this not the same scenario?

With BT not upgrading the infrastructure until 2011, things are set to get
worse and the customers are the ones suffering.

My E-Petition link is http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/broadbandripoff/


Thank you for any support you are willing to give to put pressure on the Gvt
to do something, OFCOM are not interested, their advice? Write and complain
to your ISP. What? ALL OF THEM? This needs pressure from elsewhere not just
consumers as we have no choice left, we can either put up or shut up as
every single ISP in the UK now uses this disgraceful behaviour to make as
much money for a terrible service as possible!



Lee

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:12:35 +0100, "Lee"
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Very thoroughly researched. Well done. Good luck.

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