Sky sets its lawyers on VM over internet ad campaign

So it says here ...

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/...on-ad-campaign

BSkyB has set its lawyers on Virgin Media over the cableco’s provocative “stop the broadband con� internet campaign.

Discuss.

This will astound some on here that think only virgin go running to the regulator,as we are now seeing sky do the same when it suits .!

Where i live sky,bts 02s,talk talk, ect ect are all in the slow lane as ADSL only delivers a maximum of 1.5-2 MB on ADSL max being not close to the exchnage.

[roger skillin]

Virgin were correct with their campaign, Our business broadband in an industrial estate in the middle of Bedford with BT gets 2mb if we're lucky and we're on "up to 20mb", what's the point of even giving us up to 20 if we can only get 2, and it doesn't matter if it's BT, sky ,talk talk etc etc, they all run through the same cable so they will all be as slow

[weesteev]

Originally Posted by roger skillin

and it doesn't matter if it's BT, sky ,talk talk etc etc, they all run through the same cable so they will all be as slow

Not true, a provider can unbundle an exchange and provide their own service over the same lines where it is economical.

Originally Posted by weesteev

Not true, a provider can unbundle an exchange and provide their own service over the same lines where it is economical.

When i looked into changing suppliers a few years ago they were all offering basically the same very slow speeds ie up to 2 MB !! nothing like 20 MB because thats all our local line can take.

Strange as i live in a large area nobody has unbundled our services.

Even sky offer the same 2 mb service here so i make virgins advert right myself.

[roger skillin]

Originally Posted by weesteev

Not true, a provider can unbundle an exchange and provide their own service over the same lines where it is economical.

No it is very true, what i was basically saying is that if our business were to change to any of the other useless ADSL companies we would still get the same 6 odd year old speed of around 2mb because of the distance from the exchange

[Sirius]

So you can see why Sky want this stopped. They will have to tell the truth about there speeds.

[Harryn9000]

none of the speed coming down adsl will ever get full speed and that a fact expect when on bt infinity. i hope sky lose coz they lie to much about tv broadband

[Digital Fanatic]

Sky are blowing hot air... Ofcom results show Sky and BT are much slower on average:

http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2011/03/02...ertised-speed/

Virgin Media’s cable services, available to 48 per cent of the population, delivered average download speeds that were much closer to advertised ‘up to’ speeds than ADSL services, delivering between 90 and 96 per cent of the advertised speeds. Virgin Media’s highest speed 50Mbit/s package delivered an average download speed of around 46Mbit/s.

The average download speed received for ‘up to’ 20/24Mbit/s DSL packages was 6.2Mbit/s (29 per cent of average advertised ‘up to’ speeds). For ‘up to’ 8Mbit/s DSL services, it was 3.4Mbit/s (42 per cent of average advertised ‘up to’ speeds).
Very few ADSL broadband customers achieved average actual download speeds close to advertised ‘up to’ speeds. Just three per cent of customers on ‘up to’ 20 or 24Mbit/s DSL services received average download speeds of over 16Mbit/s, while 69 per cent received average download speeds of 8Mbit/s or less.

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by Harryn9000

none of the speed coming down adsl will ever get full speed and that a fact expect when on bt infinity. i hope sky lose coz they lie to much about tv broadband

It's not even true of BT Infinity. The last piece of cable is still copper or aluminium and the speed is still reduced.

[jtaylor06]

Sky spitting our their dummy as per usual.

[Sirius]

So what happened to "Believe in better"

Or is that only when it suits them

[Ignitionnet]

Different day, same story, just players the other way around today.

VM's turn next time.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by roger skillin

No it is very true, what i was basically saying is that if our business were to change to any of the other useless ADSL companies we would still get the same 6 odd year old speed of around 2mb because of the distance from the exchange

distance from the exchange is only one, albeit a big one, factor in BB speed

[mentalis]

Originally Posted by Sirius

So what happened to "Believe in better"

Or is that only when it suits them

I always laugh (to myself) when I see Believe in better. Is that saying that you should believe there is something better than Sky?