Posts by Paul Hampson

ID fraudsters soak the rich

Residents in College Gardens in Tooting, south London, were five times as likely to fall victim

All these very localized hotspots. Hmm. Couldn't possibly be the local post man (or person at the sorting office) could it? Nothing against posties but there are always a few bad apples.

BBC vs ISPs: Bandwidth row escalates as Tiscali wades in

@Nick Palmer

"The BBC, whose license fee is ALSO supposed to cover the provision of distribution methods"

The BBC is not responsible for distribution, only transmission, which is why they don't pay for the electricity we use for our TV sets.

The BBC is still incurring costs for transmission.

I only hope that someone from the BBC and the other TV company's see these comments and take heart. It may be that future services from other companies will be cancelled as a result of this "Outcry" by greedy, besuited ISPs.

Why is the register and the media in general not ridiculing the ISPs claims?

Why do they just brush over the near fraudulent representation of services by ISPs?

Why ,in short, are issues in the telecom sector always seen as a failure by civil servants like Ofcom and now the BBC.

Maybe, if the register (and similar media organizations) saved some of their bile for ISPs and BT we wouldn't be having this discussion .