Here's a suggestion to get the campaign going, how about, if users who aren't happy make a complaint to the ASA, the Ads on TV are clearly stating at the end "Broadband Without Limits"
Traffic shaping is a limit, it's not cutting the amount we can download, but it is limiting the speed at which users can download, to 50% of what we pay for. Whether the limit is in effect for 4 hours a day or 24 doesn't matter, whether it's for the "top 5% of users" or not.
They can call it a "Traffic Management Policy" as much as they like, it is a limit.
I think it's time the big companies like VM should realise they can't throttle our usage to make space for a newer 20Mb line, and still expect to take the same money from us. I have been with Cabletel/NTL for years, but since they changed to Virgin, they've gone down the drain, and badly. People are leaving in droves, here's a link to a newspaper article from today:
http://news.independent.co.uk/busine...cle2527757.ece
Anyway, if any users would like to make a complaint to the Advertising Standards Agency, this is the link:
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_complain/
And, to the ones who will criticise, I'm by no means in the "Top 5%" I just think that in the world of the web with legal high size media files that are available, the limits imposed are ridiculous!
We should all have the right to the service we paid for and I think it is wrong for any company to impose new restrictions after the fact, just to introduce a new marketing ploy with faster speeds. After all, they aren't dropping prices are they ?