Posts by J.Butler 20 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2007
Knowing your rights makes no difference, the police arrest first, then find a law to fit.
If all else fails they'll lie and say it was a public order offence, your word against theirs. No comeback.
Lets have it right, the average plod on the street joined because they like telling other people what to do, that they don't have the intelligence to be able to interpret the law (even after guidance from the home office) is a secondary consideration.
Or send text messages, I might stretch to having a handheld GPS device, other than that... I can't see any reason why anyone would want to watch TV on their mobiles.... and I don't know anyone who would beyond the first 5 minutes of novelty factor.
The mobile companies are on a hiding to nothing with this.
Why on earth would anyone use these stores with their vastly inflated prices?
Just check their websites... I'll wager that for every item you can find another retailer selling the same goods for 30->50% less!
£700 LCD TV's retail at £1100 in their stores.... a no brainer.
Add to that the poor staff training, and the incessant "extended warranty" guff when they know they're responsible well beyond the manufacturers warranty under EU law!
I'm amazed they're still in business at all!
Get the BBC to subsidise their networks while at the same time relying on content providers like the BBC to drive uptake of net connections! Can no-one see the glaring problem here?
I would suggest that Tiscali and the ISP's are the ones who don't know their own businesses. I paid for my internet connection, there's no use whining when I actually want to use it!
I think it's time we saw a new pricing structure across all ISP's, clearly they can't provide anything like they're advertising claims... Hell, VM's service is virtually unusable it's FUP terms are so draconian.
ISP's, Offcom and the ASA... these are the real problem parties here!
.... I even wrote to them to ask them to remove me and was informed there was no functionality for removing people. Apparently there is someone there who can manually remove people.. but he's far too busy to deal with members of the public!
I'd say this is par for the course with virtually every place that asks you to register, unregistering doesn't help you users count much does it?
As a VM customer, I can say that if their broadband business is the jewel in their crown, they're seriously screwed.
They've managed to decimate a service that worked flawlessly for several years, in several months. It's now a shadow of it's former self.
The notion that broadband is Virgins' ace card is laughable.
The switchoff should be cancelled until Ofcom decide what's going to happen with the available bandwidth. If there is going to be a Freeview HD service, then all the boxes need replacing (again).
Still, nice to know our government can make a cockup of just about anything they turn their hand to!
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