TalkTalk Trial Free Automatic UK Upgrades to FTTP Broadband

goiong on from my pushing FTTP post, I see here that Talk Talk is doing the same thing, but they are doing it in normal Talk Talk fashion.
how that provider is still going I have no idea.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2022/07/talkta...

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

goiong on from my pushing FTTP post, I see here that Talk Talk is doing the same thing, but they are doing it in normal Talk Talk fashion.
how that provider is still going I have no idea.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2022/07/talkta...

Sadly some are simply out of touch with the future.

Could just say 'no thanks'. Just a trial after all.

I don't see much wrong with TalkTalk's approach - they've made it clear that they are testing out different ways of saying this (presumably some groups get an opt in letter, others get an opt out, and then some people get the one in the article where it's phrased like you have no choice.

I'd rather they were proactive about this.

In reply to a post by dect:

Sadly some are simply out of touch with the future.

Like i said in my other posts, it should be up to people, maybe they want a mess or holes drilled in their walls. I have seen a few photos of fibre installation that look like a disaster, more so since ZZoomm started doing around here and also some from what open reach have done. i was not that keen on fibre anyway, I think over the last few months I have been put right off it.

In reply to a post by jpm:

I don't see much wrong with TalkTalk's approach - they've made it clear that they are testing out different ways of saying this (presumably some groups get an opt in letter, others get an opt out, and then some people get the one in the article where it's phrased like you have no choice.

I'd rather they were proactive about this.

Talk Talk will say anything to stop them looking like the bad ones. People should not be made to look like they have no choice, like I have posted on ISPreview, they are acting like energy providers who want to install a smart meter.

The letters should be something like, we can update your broadband to fibre to the premises, same price, same speed and then tell the customer about the advantages and then say if you want further information, then phone or email.

No one should feel like they are being pushed. I am really fed up with being pushed to do things by different companies and the government.
If I stay with plujsnet and we are getting openreach fibre around here, I'm dreading the time when/if plusnet starts pushing fibre.

It is up to people. They can choose to have Internet access through full fibre or they can choose to have no Internet access in the near future through anything other than mobile or satellite.

Same kinda story Hull will have in 2023.

In reply to a post by XGS_Is_On:

It is up to people. They can choose to have Internet access through full fibre or they can choose to have no Internet access in the near future through anything other than mobile or satellite.

Same kinda story Hull will have in 2023.

I think there are going to be some very annoyed customers who will fight with everything they have not to have Fibre if they don't want it.

It is the wording of the letter that gets me, like my council emailed me about the electoral register, and they put You must take action, so we can check who is eligible to register to vote at your address. Excuse me, but we are their customers as to speak, I pay them money to run this city, I was the one that voted them in, they don't tell me what to do.

I am fed up with being told what to do all the time. Go into a shop, and you get a handset chucked at you or directed to self scan, energy companies telling us we must have a smart meter, thankfully nine don't, yet. now we have internet providers who seem to think we work for them, they work for us.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

It is the wording of the letter that gets me, like my council emailed me about the electoral register, and they put You must take action, so we can check who is eligible to register to vote at your address. Excuse me, but we are their customers as to speak, I pay them money to run this city, I was the one that voted them in, they don't tell me what to do.

I'm afraid you are shooting at the wrong target here. The Registration Officer who sent you the form is required by law to conduct an annual canvass in order to update the electoral register by adding new electors and deleting those who are no longer resident in the area. The Officer has powers under the law to set a date for you to return the information and then impose a civil penalty (such as a fine) if the information is not returned. If you don't like that as a system you will need to lobby your MP about getting the law changed rather than having a rant at someone who is only carrying out the legal requirements of their role.

Edited by GonePostal (Tue 26-Jul-22 10:36:23)

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I was the one that voted them in, they don't tell me what to do.

The Electoral Registration Officer and the ERO's team in the council and the STAFF at the council are not elected they are employees whom you should not treat as elected representatives. Only the councillors themselves are elected.