Yeah, I've got a competitor that advertises "12 mbps" speeds. He's
doing standard low-end wifi. Yes, the over-the-air speed might be
theoretically 12, but I ain't ever seen it.
Chuck
> Behalf Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 3:28 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: [WISPA] Advertising
Hi,
This issue with ComCast and their p2p connection blocking brings up
another issue I would like to discuss... false advertising.
I have a competitor that is selling "up to 4meg down by 1meg up" for
$34.95 with free installation and no contract. Another competitor is
doing "up to 2meg" for $39.95... yet, when I purchased their service
and
did speed tests, the fastest I ever got was 500kbps. At what point is
there a "false advertising" claim to be made against these companies
that are advertising service that can NEVER been achieved at any time
on
their network?
I would think if you did speed tests every hour, 24 hours per day for a
week and never got within 90% of their claimed speed, there could be a
case. The damages would be in customers that are switching from my
service to theirs based on their advertising claims. Each customer
should be worth at least 12x the monthly revenue based on current
market
values.
Anyone else agree? Or am I way off base here?
Travis
Microserv
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