Thread: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Old 13-01-2012, 11:58   #667
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by BenMcr View Post
Technically it's correct in that everyone that site applies to will get their speed doubled.
Not really. "That site" applies to everyone. It's published on links from the VM homepage and isn't specific to any particular tariff or tier.

(The virginmedia.com homepage advertises increased speeds with a link to here which in turn links to "that site" to "Find out when" for all customers. On that page they also clearly bolded the line containing "doubling all our customers’ broadband speeds" before unbolding the bit about "actually, we're not")

It's like the whole Unlimited* and Up to <insert superfast broadband speed>Mb* business all over again.

* But not actually unlimited or for everyone or all the time

Except this is infinitely worse since when advertising Unlimited or Up to one naturally assumes it's not necessarily applicable to everyone and there's no claim as such. Yet here they're clearly advertising everyone*

*Not actually everyone
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