From that Zen account of FUPs:
When Talk Talk took over AOL and screwed my service and lost all my emails without a by your leave, they had an hideous reputation.
Obviously the above ploy was to make sure they only kept hold of people who were cheap to keep.
Since then the srvice got better, as well as could be expected from a BT reseller.
But they were doing something immoral.
The thing is that we lusers never find out what until years later. I'd love to be able to sue them but they wouldn't get as badly hurt by it as I would. So...
What can you do but just move over.
It smacks of an article I just read about rebadged USB memory.
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.comp.os.linux/browse_frm/thread/fc83561e5f7937dc/7d39795d1399b6b1
Apparantly Kingston sticks are sold to non wholesalers because the actual manufacturers are shielding the company and their own production by permitting rebadging right down to out and out scammers.
The actual manufacturers are Sandis and Toshiba:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
For persistent heavy users the ISPs may try to make their service seem so unattractive that the customer chooses to leave of their own accord. This is hardly surprising when you consider that only a small percentage (often less than 10%) of a provider’s customer base can be responsible for using the majority of its overall network capacity. It often makes more economic sense to squeeze the heaviest users and thus free up performance over a wider selection of subscribers.
Some providers can also abuse it as a means to fit more customers onto a dwindling supply of capacity, which saves money but can also lead to a detriment in service quality for everybody. This kind of irresponsible behaviour is little more than a patch to mask the need for further investment in capacity and the provider’s failure to advertise and design its packages with greater honesty in mind.
When Talk Talk took over AOL and screwed my service and lost all my emails without a by your leave, they had an hideous reputation.
Obviously the above ploy was to make sure they only kept hold of people who were cheap to keep.
Since then the srvice got better, as well as could be expected from a BT reseller.
But they were doing something immoral.
The thing is that we lusers never find out what until years later. I'd love to be able to sue them but they wouldn't get as badly hurt by it as I would. So...
What can you do but just move over.
It smacks of an article I just read about rebadged USB memory.
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.comp.os.linux/browse_frm/thread/fc83561e5f7937dc/7d39795d1399b6b1
Apparantly Kingston sticks are sold to non wholesalers because the actual manufacturers are shielding the company and their own production by permitting rebadging right down to out and out scammers.
The actual manufacturers are Sandis and Toshiba:
Significantly, Kingston is revealed as simply a vendor that re-marks other people’s chips in its own packaging . Every Kingston card surprisingly had a Sandisk or Toshiba memory chip inside, and the only variance or “value add” that could be found is in the selection of the controller chip. Oddly enough, of all the vendors, Kingston quoted with the best lead times and pricing — better than SanDisk or Samsung, despite the competition making all their own silicon and thereby having a lower inherent cost structure.
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918























