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> Most of which is being falsely advertised as fibre Last I checked If part of the journey is fibre (to the cabinet etc), they can legally advertise as fibre.
by jayflux 6y ago
> Most of which is being falsely advertised as fibre
Last I checked If part of the journey is fibre (to the cabinet etc), they can legally advertise as fibre. They can’t advertise a service as fibre if non of the journey uses fibre.
These days the advertisements need to make performance claims, so they can’t just say “it’s fibre” they need to say what speed you’ll get.
- Nextgrid 6y agoIn this case wouldn't pretty much any technology qualify as eventually there would be fibre back at the datacenter, even in case of 56k dial-up? Regardless of whether it's legal it is still a scummy thing to do and a major failure from the regulators. Calling crap like cable or DSL as "fibre" not only muddies the waters (DSL performance highly depends on wire quality, so one "fibre" might be 10x faster than your "fibre" despite them both being "fibre") and makes it super hard for people to know what they're actually getting. When it comes to speeds, how is that determined considering DSL speeds are unknown until you actually try it (and by that time you're already in a contract)? Is it just a meaningless "up to <theoretical maximum>" figure?