But that's what I don't get, it is unlimited whereas BT Total Broadband isn't. Regardless of whether they slow internet speeds down at peak times or not, they still give you internet access with no usage limit whereas BT do and charge you for going over that limit.
So Virgin Media will definately find loopholes around this,
The worst one is Vodafone and Virgin Mobile advertising there 'Unlimited' free same network calls. It blatently not! its 2000 vodafone to vodafone minutes and same with Virgin Mobile.
3 has toned down the use of the 'unlimited' phrase and advertises its offerings properly, it used to say unlimited texts, now it tells you how many texts you get same with the 3 to 3 calls and data usage. It's been like this for about a year.
The other one was free cable to cable calls with NTL,Telewest,Cable and Wireless,Cable London and Eurobell. They still charged you a call connection fee! So making 10 calls in an evening would cost up to 60p! Over 10 days that's £6 and over a month it's around £18. So much for free calls!
And the best one of all time, Get UNLIMITED calls with Talk UNLIMITED, BT calls it BT Anytime Calls formerly BT Together Option 3 as they probably think like I do. Telewest was the first to launch this round 2001/2002 and it truly was unlimited even after 59 minutes of a call.
The reason why it was scrapped was because the billing system couldn't cope, but i've been told that since both NTL and Telewest merged they now use a system called Icoms and there is now no longer any need for all that hang up after 59 minutes crap, they should put it back to how it was!
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Just as an FYI the Advertising Standards Agency have published a report on the advertising of broadband services in terms of the speeds that operators are allowed to advertise and use of 'Unlimited'.
The advertising of speeds doesn't affect VM, however the 'unlimited' section does, and basically the Detrimental Usage Policy is against those rules, so has to change or 'unlimited' has to go from the advertising by April 2012.
Other plans afoot so all good.
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