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ISPs must ensure half of punters get advertised max speeds

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: ISPs?

Are we going to get motor manufacturers to change the speedometers fitted as they may offer speeds up to 140 mph when the car can only get to 110mph, with a struggle

I always thought that was the case. Certainly, none of my cars including the various performance cars have had an engine capable of taking the speedo needle off the scale.

Zen failed by offering all options including "up to" 76Mb

Zen like many ISPs will give a 'teaser' result, something you only discover when you click "buy" and go to the next stage. Additionally, you do have to be careful as on a previous broadband article I noted that the different BT checkers returned different results, with investigation confirming that both results were correct. (A few months back, for my area, BT retail weren't offering FTTC because they had used up their allocation of terminal blocks, but going to the 'right' BT Wholesale reseller you could get FTTC.)

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