Posts by Steve Cole

Carphone Warehouse buys Tiscali UK

Customer Service?

"Tiscali UK CEO Mary Turner said: "It's good news for our customers who will increasingly benefit from a group that has consistently championed best value and award-winning customer service.""

Award-winning customer service? What award was that then?

Fasthosts primes another password reset

Bye Bye Fasthosts

I have just recovered my password via the website and taken the opportunity to transfer away 15 domains from them.

Bye bye Fasthosts.

WANs go faster Down Under

Good bit of kit

I have installed a number of these bits of kit and they seriously good and do exactly what they say they will!

Tiscali locks down contracts after email disaster

Tiscali or Quality Broadband/Service at a Cost

"Having had bad experiences with Tiscali in the past I moved over to Toucan and guess what-Toucan are Tiscali by another name. Same e-mail problems but even worse support."

Quite a few Service Providers are switching to Tiscali for Wholesale Broadband, some are even closing down their expensive centrals and migrating the customer base across to Tiscali's centrals. What a bad bad mistake, in order to save money in this cut throat Broadband market.

Time for people to stop and realize the real cost of Broadband. If you want reliable service with real people based in the UK to talk when you have a question or problem you will have to start paying a little extra than £9.99 a month,

'Data storm' blamed for nuclear plant shutdown

CTU to the rescue

Did Habib Marwan have anything to do with this? I assume the NRC called in Edgar Stiles and Jack Bauer to save the day!

Sky takes ball and goes home

Sky vs Freeview

If MotorsTV was on Freeview I would have cancelled my Sky subscription months ago, apart from the odd thing that my Tivo finds on my basic £15 subscription that I find interesting I don't think I would miss such great channels as "The Baby Channel" "The Wine Channel" etc

Good on you Virgin Media, Sky have taken too much of the market.

Long live P2P Lost, 24 with HD quality content...