In reply to a post by zyborg47:

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.

At some point the ISP will just cancel their account. It may be soon, it may be a few years, but once fibre is in the street outside, the older copper network will become more costly to run, and the network operator (be it Openreach, or Hull telecoms, or Virgin media) will choose to stop service.

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.

Of course there are over 1.3 million people missing in the workforce, and retail and hospitality worst affected, so they are trying to keep your business with lack of staff. Lots of restaurants are closing, some due to prices, but many due to inability to get staff.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

It is the wording of the letter that gets me

Some people need to be herded otherwise the world would still be in the dark ages. I blame the fact that people already believe they have fibre this is not their fault but technology does need to move forward.

In reply to a post by dect:

I blame the fact that people already believe they have fibre this is not their fault but technology does need to move forward.

The ASA failed the population, and the word "fibre" became an alias for "fast", and I have colleagues whom think they have 3Mbps "fibre"

In reply to a post by jchamier:

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.

i know what they are, just the way they word it, you Must. Should be please. Stuff it, I will wait until they send me a form and I will do it by post, I did not give them permission to use my email address for that purpose anyway. The same with the last census, they wanted it done online, not that I did it at all. I forgot and for some reason I did not get a follow-up to it. Only when I found the form I remembered about it and it was too late then

In reply to a post by jchamier:

At some point the ISP will just cancel their account. It may be soon, it may be a few years, but once fibre is in the street outside, the older copper network will become more costly to run, and the network operator (be it Openreach, or Hull telecoms, or Virgin media) will choose to stop service.

I think it is going to be a while here, I am pretty sure that openreach being around here is something to do with zzoomm and not openreach fibre. I am still not sure what zzoomm is doing on open reach poles as zzoomm goes underground, but i saw Zzoomm on a cherry picker mucking around with something on the pole in a road on the way to work, and this road have Toby Boxes outside each house as I walked down there a couple of weeks ago when my bike was in for service.

I have just seen another complaint about zzoomm on their facebook page, the more i see the more it puts me off.

Of course there are over 1.3 million people missing in the workforce, and retail and hospitality worst affected, so they are trying to keep your business with lack of staff. Lots of restaurants are closing, some due to prices, but many due to inability to get staff.

I work in retail, i know what it is like, I have just come home from an 8 hour shift in the warehouse of a supermarket, having a drink of water and winding down before bed, so I know full well what it is like in retail., But I don't see what that has to do with trying to chuck a handset in our hands.

In reply to a post by dect:

Some people need to be herded otherwise the world would still be in the dark ages. I blame the fact that people already believe they have fibre this is not their fault but technology does need to move forward.

If they are happy to be in the dark ages, who are we to say they should not be? It was not that many months ago that a couple I know was still using dial up, they have now gone to onto mobile broadband, they were not pushed, they asked me about faster broadband, so they can chat with their son via video. There is now FTTP where they are, but for the amount of use they would get out of it, mobile broadband is a better choice and cheaper.

People think they have fibre because openreach stuck fibre is here on all their cabinets when FTTC first came here.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

i know what they are, just the way they word it, you Must. Should be please.

Please take the time to read my earlier post properly. The Registration Officer must canvass all addresses each year and you must respond or face a civil penalty. Should the Registration Officer not carry out their duties correctly just to satisfy someone with a bee in their bonnet?

Adrian - don’t ever be tempted to emigrate to Oz. For one thing compulsory voting (with escalating fines) would drive you berserk!

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.

They are using the words You must not on some personal whim. You are legally required to complete/respond to the annual voting registration form. You could theoretically receive a £1,000 fine/criminal record for not doing so.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

It was not that many months ago that a couple I know was still using dial up, they have now gone to onto mobile broadband, they were not pushed, they asked me about faster broadband, so they can chat with their son via video. There is now FTTP where they are, but for the amount of use they would get out of it, mobile broadband is a better choice and cheaper.

I wonder how many of your associates who are using mobile data are demanding they are left on 2G? I wouldn't be surprised if they still live in caves and still have square wheels instead of round ones 🤣