Names please...

[ll_billym]

In this story on the BBC website, the BBC have taken the weak position of not naming the ISPs concerned. Can anybody please fill in the company names for the following statement:

""Its survey found that 56% of broadband providers who advertised services as "unlimited" did impose usage caps and were prepared to cut people off if they used their service to excess.

Only two out of the nine actually said what these limits were. ""

I know the survey was uswitch but cannot find a link to the survey from their site either...

Cheers...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7684322. stm

[canthinkofon]

Orange are unlimited but will remove heavy users,
Toucan advertise unlimited but will cut you off if you use too much,
sky,40gb max,also AOL 40gb
BT unlimited,also Tiscali,

[Buenchico]

I think that you need to take another look at your own link. There's a 'box-out' headed 'What the ISPs offer', which goes a fair way towards answering your question.

Alternatively, read the full details, in the appendix to the uSwitch press release, here:
http://www.uswitch.com/Press-Room/Index.aspx?d ownloadfile=%E2%80%98UNLIMITED-LIMITS%E2%80%99 -STILL-BAFFLE-NINE-OUT-OF-TEN[1]-BROADBAND-USE RS

Chris

[Mattk]

'Orange are unlimited but will remove heavy users'

so surely orange aren't unlimited then?

broadband is misadvertised on the 'upto' speed front too. mine is an 'up to' 8 megs service but I know I will never get anywhere near that with 4megs being my best recorded speed but there must be many people who sign up expecting to hit the advertised speeds.

[ll_billym]

Thanks Buenchico, that appendix has all the info in it.