Bit off topic, I suppose but doesn't this headline article I saw today just sum up the prevalent attitude to communications costs in the UK today? "How much can we squeeze from the suckers who live there or visit the place....."


Quote:

Fair Wi-Fi promoters have hard time finding London venue for event that doesn’t charge excessive Wi-Fi rates: Tony Hallett writes about how several hotels have been struck from a list of potential venues for a CIO Forum run by Silicon.com in London because of the cost of Wi-Fi. One hotel bragged to organizers that they’d (even) figured out a way to identify and charge piggybacked laptop users on a shared connection

See http://wifinetnews.com/archives/007455.html

And if it is bad now, I can't even start to imagine what rorts will be in place for the Olympics!  >:(

mikeinnc wrote on Mar 5^th, 2007 at 10:04pm:

And if it is bad now, I can't even start to imagine what rorts will be in place for the Olympics!  >:(

Quite predictable:

Ticket booking lines 0871 this, 090X that, 0844 other, text SCAM to 89999 (One fifty per text, no way to cancel; ha ha we've got ya now 'cos ICSTIS is a bunch of wkers)
Travel information lines ditto
Airline and airport information ditto
Government travel advice ditto

An international event that UK providers can exploit hundreds of thousands of people with the regulators sat on their backsides with their heads entrenched inside.

Oh what a lovely country!

Agree about the wi-fi issue - travelling around here, many cheap and mid range hotels/motels provide free wi-fi.