Ofcom UK to Enforce Rules on Misleading Use of "Fibre" Broadband UPDATE
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The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, will tomorrow begin enforcing new rules that will only allow broadband ISPs to use terms like “fibre” and “ful
  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Virgin Media’s not gonna be happy about that, fuck em tho.

    • silasmariner@programming.devEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      Virgin is the fucking worst. Throttles upload, blocks sites, isn’t even cheap

      Edit: basing this all of my friends’ wi-fi’s because I would fucking never pay for Virgin

      • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        My experience of virgin was a router that spiked pings, constant price rises out of contract, and a cancellation line that said “if you’re unhappy with your current price rise, press 1 to reduce it by £2.50 for 6 months”.

        Just stupid.

        So now I have a grown up ISP, that doesn’t raise the price in contract, and so far hasn’t changed it out of contract either.

        • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          constant price rises out of contract

          That doesn’t seem unusual, plusnet tripled my Mum’s broadband price when her contract expired, assholes.

          • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            I think it was more that after finding an ISP that generally didn’t, I wondered why I ever used an ISP that did.

            Hell, when I first signed up, they had a “fixed price for life” deal on!

            Sure, I probably pay a little more than if I re-negotiated and switched providers every 18 months, to get the new customer deals.
            But I’m too old for that shit, I just want reliable internet that I don’t need to think about past the ONT.