These days, you don’t need to have your credit-card details stolen to be completely ripped off online. The sky-high prices at most of Britain’s wireless internet (WiFi) hot-spots is nothing short of scandalous. Frankly, it’s a stick-up.
Having a scan around with jiwire or ZDNet there do not seem to be many free hotspots about here in the UK.
For their part, BT and T-Mobile each insists that its services are fairly priced for business customers. Nonsense, says the respected international analyst Gartner, which found that only a quarter of UK/US businessmen use public hot-spots, because the cost is prohibitive. If executives with generous expense accounts can’t afford their rates, who exactly is their target market? Roman Abramovich?Interesting.... Starfleet is a vast global company. They will not pay or re-imburse these fees as they are so ridiculous. So which businesses are targets?
What will it take for Ofcom to pull its finger out? “If there was enough evidence that consumers were unhappy, we would look at it,” said the spokesman. He claimed that it hadn’t had any complaints so far. It has now: mine. If you, too, want to stop this wireless robbery, I suggest you do likewise at www.ofcom.org.uk.
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