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Old 12-03-2009, 00:41   #124
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Re: Legal action taken against Virgin Media throttling practices

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Originally Posted by BenMcr View Post
Not saying a test in court wouldn't be useful

Personally, my issue is the outcome the OP is expecting.

What he is asking for is not full re-instatement of his original contract but partial re-instatement based on one part of the service - the Traffic Managment.

This request seems to be based on the fact that the ability to vary the terms is unfair.

Surely if a court rules that the right to vary the terms is unfair, and re-instatement was required - this would be full and complete reinstatement

This means the OP could end up with a unlimited, free from STM 1Mbit line (depending when the original service was taken out). You can't have it both ways.
The difference here is change of terms for duel benifit (ie upgrading custmers from 1 mb to 10mb benifits the custmer directly (for obvious reasons) and benifits the company (for marketing and retention reasons).

or the change of terms for a 1 sided benifit for example STM company gets benifit (cheaper bandwith/peering costs) custmer gets no actual benifit.(im not saying they did or not change the terms just using it as an example).

example 1 would bee a perfictly acceptable change of terms as both partys are benifitting equally (though if you think the marketing benifits outweigh your speed increase then you may still have a case :P)

example 2 would almost deffenatly bee concidered and unfair change of terms as the benifit is purly1 sided with the other party now LOOSING someof the service they contracted for.
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