Telewest false advertising

Or they just trickin me into signin up to 2MB/4MB as opposed to
512k/1MB?

They've left out "Free access to blueyonder newsgroups" on the 512k/1MB,
even though you do get the free access.
http://www.telewest.co.uk/websales/s...c_id=OACINTTAB

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:14:35 +0100, "Gøñzølã" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m>
wrote:

>Or they just trickin me into signin up to 2MB/4MB as opposed to
>512k/1MB?
>
>They've left out "Free access to blueyonder newsgroups" on the 512k/1MB,
>even though you do get the free access.

Their view is that people signing up for 512k would know what a newsgroup was.
Personally I think they have it completely wrong, since usenet was used long
before broadband became generally available and the (older?) users may not be
interested in the video/flashy stuff that BY promotes.
Geo

"Geo" <hy1k-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:14:35 +0100, "Gøñzølã" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c
o m>
> wrote:
>
> >Or they just trickin me into signin up to 2MB/4MB as opposed to
> >512k/1MB?
> >
> >They've left out "Free access to blueyonder newsgroups" on the
512k/1MB,
> >even though you do get the free access.
>
> Their view is that people signing up for 512k would know what a
newsgroup was.
> Personally I think they have it completely wrong, since usenet was
used long
> before broadband became generally available and the (older?) users may
not be
> interested in the video/flashy stuff that BY promotes.

Whatever they think, it's intentionally meant to deceive.
They know what they're writin.
It's like "Access to online gaming" for 1MB, and "Free access to online
gaming" for 2MB/4MB.

Gøñzølã wrote:

> Or they just trickin me into signin up to 2MB/4MB as opposed to
> 512k/1MB?
>
> They've left out "Free access to blueyonder newsgroups" on the 512k/1MB,
> even though you do get the free access.
> http://www.telewest.co.uk/websales/s...c_id=OACINTTAB


They want 50 quid a month for 4mb/384k
They must be mad - in every country the internet is expanding by some 20%
per annum and they can't be bothered to keep up with the investment
and still charge high prices? Prices are falling - they should be supplying
4mb/384 now for 20 quid or less and focus on upgrading their
infrastructure before more knowlegeable telcos and LLU driven
telcos fuck them up rolling out 100Mbit sdsl which they
have already started doing.

"7" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> They want 50 quid a month for 4mb/384k
> They must be mad - in every country the internet is expanding by some
20%
> per annum and they can't be bothered to keep up with the investment
> and still charge high prices? Prices are falling - they should be
supplying
> 4mb/384 now for 20 quid or less and focus on upgrading their
> infrastructure before more knowlegeable telcos and LLU driven
> telcos fuck them up rolling out 100Mbit sdsl which they
> have already started doing.

4MB for £20?
That'll mean em havin to charge £3.50 for 512K.
Can't see it happenin before my arms and legs drop off though.

Gøñzølã wrote:

>
> "7" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:NTTxe.61583$(E-Mail Removed). uk...
>>
>> They want 50 quid a month for 4mb/384k
>> They must be mad - in every country the internet is expanding by some
> 20%
>> per annum and they can't be bothered to keep up with the investment
>> and still charge high prices? Prices are falling - they should be
> supplying
>> 4mb/384 now for 20 quid or less and focus on upgrading their
>> infrastructure before more knowlegeable telcos and LLU driven
>> telcos fuck them up rolling out 100Mbit sdsl which they
>> have already started doing.
>
> 4MB for £20?
> That'll mean em havin to charge £3.50 for 512K.
> Can't see it happenin before my arms and legs drop off though.

They can't do that - many of them are showing foolish pricing
tendencies. Sure you can cut down to 10p a month, but to
stay profitable you need to invoice something in the region
of 20 quid a month. Based on that, you should then
provide the highest bandwidth and highest quality service
that that money should be able to provide based on international
price comparisons.