My cover story – Popup billing finds a new screen – in today’s technology Guardian (printed edition) takes a closer look at Platte Media (Platte International Ltd).
It’s online as Porn billing firm lures customers with promises of Hollywood movies (it was first published on Weds 25 June in the latest news section).
BT’s plan for quicker connection, my cover story in the technology Guardian section today, looks at ADSL2+. Over the next three years, the upgrade from ADSL will boost broadband from 8 Mbps to 24 Mbps – if you’re lucky. This story first appeared in yesterday’s online-only news section.
24 April: An interesting letter in technology Guardian from a disabled 84-year-old pensioner in Oxfordshire today. The full letter (correspondence is often edited for space reasons) comments about broadband reliability: “This has now reached the point that it [broadband] is rarely available at weekends, and access on weekdays is hit and miss. Even at this very poor level of service, I am more and more dependent on it. I have given up complaining to BT about this, because the last time I complained, the response was “OK, if it’s that bad, we’ll disconnect you”. I protested, and BT relented, though warning me that it has “no present plans” to upgrade my exchange to cure the problem.”
BT is now looking into it.
Here’s a developing story in technology Guardian’s blog: What MBS did after popups for porn: films.. with popup bills.
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