Well, this is getting interesting! Thanks.

Look forward to the unveiling of the results.

I think your "smarty pants" comment is becoming more and more appropriate. In addition to the two edits to my recent reply to her, I also wonder who owns the raw dataset and/or the copyright in it. Ofcom would appear to have commissioned the research.

I have a feeling the OP may be even more out of order now she has declared the source. Unless she is sufficiently senior within one of the two organisations, probably samknows, to be fully aware of the contractual position regarding that data and also either to have authority to use it for this unofficial graph or to have obtained such authority.

It all seems rather odd that an anonymous person can publish on the Internet a graph compiled by themselves from this proprietary raw dataset.

Except I haven't edited anything at all, and have all the approval I need, thanks

Liar. The graph did not originally mention Samknows. If it had, I would have been questioning your permission in the first place, not trying to trace your source as per my earlier suggestions.

I'm never happy with graphs that don't show the full axis. VERY misleading.

"Unless you like very tall empty graphics (even log 0 tall), don't show unnecessary zero points. Real scientists show data, not zero points."

"Don't spend a lot of empty vertical space trying to reach down to the zero point at the cost of hiding what is going on in the data line itself. (The book, How to Lie With Statistics, is wrong on this point.) For examples, all over the place, of absent zero points in time-series, take a look at any major scientific research publication. The scientists want to show their data, not zero."

Professor Edward Tufte, leading authority on visual statistics and author of the classic text The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

I understand some people are y-axis Nazis, if you are one of them, you can always print the graph out and move the x-axis down to show a lot of blank space If I did it in the image, there would simply not be the space or resolution to show the data intended. It would be the same if I was plotting Lewis Hamilton's lap times over a grand prix on a F1 forum, it would be silly to insist it starts at zero. Caution is good, but rigid rules are something else, especially when they lead to useless graphs or ones the size of a small village.

I'm not lying, let alone a liar, thank you very much. Anyone who looked at the graph can back me up. AFAIK it is even impossible to change an image uploaded to postimg, you have to do a new upload which gets a new link and seen as my post has not been edited, so that proves that.

I'm not surprised you admit your only planned contributions are to distract from the results at any cost. Trolls gonna troll

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Caution is good, but rigid rules are something else, especially when they lead to useless graphs or ones the size of a small village.

Agreed. It's all a matter of context and whether the chart represents the data appropriately. Sometimes charts are used or manipulated to emphasise the point, rather than merely demonstrate it.

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BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Plusnet, EE.

What's the prize?

Not bad, 1 right out of 5!

Prizes are to be determined, disappointment guaranteed

Guess I am winning so far - no more takers for some reason.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I think your "smarty pants" comment is becoming more and more appropriate. In addition to the two edits to my recent reply to her, I also wonder who owns the raw dataset and/or the copyright in it. Ofcom would appear to have commissioned the research.

I have a feeling the OP may be even more out of order now she has declared the source. Unless she is sufficiently senior within one of the two organisations, probably samknows, to be fully aware of the contractual position regarding that data and also either to have authority to use it for this unofficial graph or to have obtained such authority.

It all seems rather odd that an anonymous person can publish on the Internet a graph compiled by themselves from this proprietary raw dataset.

unless of course it were published as open data.