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is mobile midband "broadband"?

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    #2
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    If you see a newspaper advert, a bill board, radio or TV ad or get a leaflet through the door or see an Instore poster that is misleading, dishonest, or in some way contravenes the code here http://asai.ie/code.asp

    Complain to the ASAI. They do get Adverts stopped.

    Take a photo or scan. Note date and publication / Location.

    You never know, if enough people complain about something it might even embarrass Mr. Ryan or ComReg.
    • Upto 24Mbps... (DSL)
    • DSL BB for only 9 Euro
    • Unlimited cap.
    • No Contention.
    • A FUP (Fair Usage Policy) that is practically secret.
    • Wireless ISDN marketed as Broadband
    • Mobile Internet marketed as Broadband with unrealistic upto speeds
    • No clear mention of charges over Cap in adverts.

    Real Complaints here (not moans, but things that break the code):
    http://asai.ie/complain.asp

    Bad marketing and overselling by a wide range of ISPs skews competition unfairly against more honest ISPs. It holds back development and up take of Broadband (i.e. a bad experience with ripwave, or someone gives up DSL for "cheaper" Mobile product sold as broadband and then locked into 12 month contract)


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The UK asks is 2Mbps fast enough for Broadband?
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8126246.stm


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The 1st poll is on an NBS advert. It doesn't explicitly say 3 Ireland are providing NBS.
    (who places it? 3, Dept or "NBS")

    Here is a 2nd poll on an actual 3 Ireland advert: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055612244
    This is an ordinary "Broadband advert"
    EXCEPT:
    • It's 3's service using 3G/HSPA on Mobile Phone Network
    • They claim 15GByte is a HUGE Cap (On NBS this is 12 Down and 3 up)
    • Can't find FUP on 3 website
    • No mention of performance
    • Copy & past of the Logos from the NBS advert.
    • A few pages after NBS advert in same paper.

    Have a look and a vote. If you think it is misleading complain online to ASAI and tell them why.


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