[damien c]

Originally Posted by driz

That article refers to Virgin's HFC as FTTP and fibre?

Virgin referring to their products as 'fibre' is a far greater con. That the ASA didn't stop them calling their product 'fibre optic' originally is disgusting.

The thing is right, is Virgin's broadband fibre or not?

Answer yes it is the whole backbone is Fibre.

Could BT and Sky and other companies advertise saying "our fibre optic broadband" simply put yes they could because there backbone is fibre.

Also why shouldn't Virgin be able to stop other companies advertising at those speed's considering probably about 30% if that of there customers, actually get anything above 2mb - 4mb where as I am guessing here at the pecentages but I reckon atleast 80+ of Virgin's customers get there max speed.

Not to mention that Virgin have or are curretly trialing 1.5gb connection's using fibre to the home so, if and when that get's released are you then going to say the same thing.

The funny thing I see is when companies including Virgin advertise "Unlimited Broadband" when they all and we all know it is not truly unlimited because of the traffic shaping.

I don't think any company should be able to advertise super fast broadband unless they are selling 100mb and upwards, simply because I don't consider anything less as superfast.

All the advertising I see from Sky and BT etc is false advertisment when it comes to speed, and from them all when they say unlimited especially when some companies will charge you per gb if you download more than 300gb a month.