Comreg Wrong...again

stereo_steve

I emailed this to Comreg this morning.

Please take a look at http://www.meteor.ie/misc/roaming.html
and update your UK roaming rates on your UK roaming rates page.

http://www.askcomreg.ie/mobile/uk_pricing.158.LE.asp

A consumer should not have to advise you of such facts!!!


Steve

They still haven't fixed it! How many days do you reckon it will take? Although in fairness Meteor only announced these new rates 6 weeks ago :rolleyes:

People say that the problem with comreg is that they have no power. But I reckon they are also just incompetent!

rogue-entity

They are incompetant (probably corrupt) and certainly powerless, the governement never gave them a pair of balls.

Then again, it doesnt help with FF in power...

The Corinthian

My experience of government bodies is that they tend to forget about projects shortly after launch, so they are rarely properly maintained. Of course, I can’t say that in this case, but it is likely to come down to a failing on an administrative level. Possibly there is no one actually in charge of maintaining the site or if there is they are not able to change those static portions (such as the page in question) without going via an outside company.

I would, however, ask that posters refrain from making wild accusations of corruption.

BuffyBot

They'll surely respond to such a carefully crafted piece of writing...

rogue-entity

The Corinthian wrote:

I would, however, ask that posters refrain from making wild accusations of corruption.

Oh please, I never accused Comreg of being corrupt, I just said it was a possibility, these are two different things. As you said, comreg themselves probably have a third party maintaining their website, and red tape doesnt help things.

chrislad

Probably means more likely than unlikely. Just to be pedantic

In all seriousness though, it can be taken as an accusation, and I think boards has enough of that going around now without adding to itl.

jesus_thats_gre

The Corinthian wrote:

My experience of government bodies is that they tend to forget about projects shortly after launch, so they are rarely properly maintained.

It is the same with every big company as well. People are always clammering to be involved in the next big thing it seems and they just drop everything else they are doing.

The Corinthian

rogue-entity wrote:

Oh please, I never accused Comreg of being corrupt, I just said it was a possibility, these are two different things. As you said, comreg themselves probably have a third party maintaining their website, and red tape doesnt help things.

You did - “probably corrupt” is not a suggestion of a possibility, as you’re now attempting to downplay, but a far stronger accusation that actually relegated to a possibility that they are not corrupt. Additionally, that they are prone to red tape (or not) is completely irrelevant to a question of corruption.

While I believe that Boards would be unlikely to be in any danger of libel proceedings from ComReg regardless of whatever wild accusations you or anyone else may conjure up, I would like to maintain a certain level of signal-to-noise ratio in discussions.

As such please adopt an approach of ‘fair comment’ when expressing such opinions - that is to say, if you’re pulling an accusation out of your ass without anything to back it up, then leave it there. Such accusations devalue, by association, those others that have actually been worked out and backed up by posters.

This is not limited to ComReg and is not negotiable.