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Old 11-03-2008, 21:45   #1085
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

At the beginning of the session, this was thrown into the pot by one of those present:

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Originally Posted by 007
will you still continue even though ISP's are pulling out
The official answer was:

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Originally Posted by KentErtugrul
No indication at all that any ISPs are pulling out. They have polled their customers and their customers want this. I would like to make it very clear that nobody is being forced into this and this is a clear and absolute optional offer to everbody. Nobody has to do it
I then asked in response to this:

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Originally Posted by Jackson
Obviously, a poll undertaken by an ISP on it's customer base is down to the discretion of said ISP so that is not something I will ask Phorm to quantify. However, when you say "their customers want this", are you not inclined to agree, in light of the announcement by TalkTalk regarding a default opt-out and re-route based on their customers correspondence/feedback, that the customers of TalkTalk at least, perhaps don't want this? After all, if a previous poll undertaken said the customers were in favour then they would have ignored the against moniroty.
An hour passes and it was not addressed. Ah well.

Having said that, does anybody recall being surveyed about wanting less adverts and phishing from VM in the past, no matter in how vague a context?

I have a text file transcript if anybody would be interested. PM me a throw away e-mail addess and I will send it, or I can post it all up here if there are no objections?
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