Of course...
... why else do you think they are so expensive and never satisfy their targets.
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Exactly the reason I haven't signed up for it, I pay £7.50 for unlimited on Sky with on average 8Mb speed, which does fine for our daily use (streaming, gaming, VPN's etc.). What will make me want to pay more for speeds I probably won't max, especially if my router doesn't support 100Mb WiFi constantly.
Even taking the fibre option with Sky see's the bill jump up to £20 a month.
I think the smartphone industry has hit a plateau with how many hardware improvements they can fit in the phone. The last few successful models from Apple and Samsung have all been based on in-house software developments which is where HTC have been traditionally weak. I have had a few HTC phones and where as I do like the Sense UI, the rest of the package just isn't quite up to scratch. Samsung's other minor USP is the connectivity with some of their other goods (I like the fact that I can see who's calling on a small PiP box on my TV).
Sorry to be pedantic "If they charged for something which was freely available then they are guilty of sharp business practice only." Most free software usually comes with a license to say it can't be sold on, in those cases that would also be fraud, but it does come down to how the person says it/sells it on the phone. Worst case scenario they will always have breached the Sales of Goods and Services Act.
Thanks for that, I just went into town and put my name down for a Note 2 LTE version when it comes out. I've been um'ing and ar'ing what to go for on my next upgrade and your comment finally sold me on the Note's size. Now just have to wait for the upgrade date, damn my patience.
Posh neighbourhoods wouldn't have a 40min trip from house to house, they pay for enough space to surround their property but not for the inconvenience of travelling to another property.
Rural areas on the other hand, 40min trip to your neighbour probably means about an hour to the sorting office.
I can see this device attached to the wall in my kitchen for media consumption while cooking or easy look up of all my digitised recipes. Would be also nice to leave it on a screen with a large calendar so the family can see what's going on at a passing glance. Like it, want it, hit me with the price?
He is quite big on technology, coincidently he was on Top Gear last night talking about a car he's designed and wants to start manufacturing in the 'ghetto' where he grew up to help the community. He's on a par with Bill Gates for philanthropy, nice to hear that he's trying to bolster interest in science and tech for kids specifically though.
As for his music, not overly bothered. Although I don't see how he fits in time to write music with all the other stuff he does.
... I like the writing style.
Particularly liked this one as I did similar in Cyprus feeding off a neighbours weak open WiFi (couldn't get a decent signal for the mobile data booster I'd bought), although mine wasn't for work purposes, more I needed to download some books from my cloud storage.
You have my sympathies, we had an outbreak last year, a dose of frontline, washing all bedding and clothes and a large can of spray I bought of the internet to fumigate the house and furniture, took a whole day to do but definitely killed all the buggers off.
(Let me know if you want the name of the spray, very effective).
I'm not commenting on anything else you've said other than the fact that you used the word politician and somehow tried to suggest that ludicrous and sense don't happen and exist (in that order) for a political type. That alone will keep me chuckling for the rest of the day.
I think this is the signal that customers are generally aren't interested in device specific content but are more than happy to consume and pay for re purposed content, it then gives the customer the choice of what device they want to consume it on. To me the 100,000 subscribers doesn't sound nearly enough for them to be breaking even, hence the staff cuts.
To me tablets and mobile's have always been about the media I already consume just available on a device that suits my needs at the specific point in time.
You should read some of his tweets, he threatens a lot of people and is generally a very nasty character or he has some very real mental health issues. Either way it is something the Police should be involved in, although I think they should have been involved a long time ago not just because an Olympic celebrity caught a dose of verbal abuse from him.
Clearly a kid with no boundaries, his parents must be ever so proud!
Thanks for filling in the gaps TeeCee, I did always wonder why the K Series had the head gasket problem when I thought it was far east technology, which at the time was fairly bullet proof. Was too lazy or forgot to look up the history (probably because I was concentrating on the smoke pouring out of my exhaust cause the head gasket had gone).
That's because the western car manufacturers pretty much all traded some design techniques with the Far East in exchange for some engine technology way back. I can't recall exactly but I think it was Rover and Honda that inked the first deal which led Honda to have similar chassis design's to Rover's. In return Rover was then able to develop the K Series engine which was in all of it's models for a number of years.
Although nowadays chassis design is not really considered a commodity because when you have a bunch of designers and a wind tunnel, the choices that come out will be pretty similar no matter where you are in the world. Car manufacturers then rely on technology in the car, offers/deals and marketing to compete with each other and differentiate their products that way.
I think the majority of the people I know on FB who plays games are all fickle users. They play a game for a short period of time then get quickly bored and move on to another one, of course each time they do this they try and drag all their friends into the game as well, ultimately it's all short lived.
I get the feeling that this is another tech company that has based it's earnings and market share on the wrong set of analytic's and it will eventually all come crashing down around them.
Don't get me wrong I know there are folk out there that will play these games longer and also spend money on the in game items etc but I only know of a couple of those types.
I think the point is in the title where it says "... overall cable customer base..." note the word cable.
If my electricity provider was using a different system that required unique cables then yes I would expect them to re-wire my house. In this case I'm talking about someone rewiring the street with cable.
... but then it would be flat if they aren't going to roll out the network nationwide. They should be investing more money in rolling it out around the country but I think they are probably far too late to the game now for that to make a difference to their business anyway.