New Media Highwayman vigilantes!
16th April 2008 by David North
Further to my earlier post about Virgin Media putting services into the “Internet bus lane” unless a premium is paid there are some people coming up with more interesting ways of rebelling against this.
A lot of people are showing understandable shock about Virgin Media’s stance and it isn’t exactly a good plan to sell their service generally - I’d personally prefer an ISP that will provide me access to everything I want at the fastest possible rate not just what they are being paid for.
There is a lot of mentioning of a certain Mr Richard Branson’s name and how he could be involved with this kind of thing? I seem to remember however (and I’m happy to be corrected) Virgin wasn’t the largest component when they merged with NTL. NTL had a awful reputation for customer service and of course the Virgin brand was very strong so merging and taking the Virgin Media name made a lot of sense. Not for Virgin unfortunately it would seem as I think this has been incredibly damaging to the Virgin brand as a whole. Not Mr Branson’s finest hour.
