tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post1055834289320445942..comments2024-03-28T09:19:27.451+00:00Comments on RevK<sup>®</sup>'s ramblings: Anti slamming serviceRevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-33994062084079700272015-05-31T17:44:17.490+01:002015-05-31T17:44:17.490+01:00This is a great idea. I can see the benefits of a ...This is a great idea. I can see the benefits of a GPL process for users — particularly in terms of migrating from broadband suppliers who attempt to make a "save" — but all ISPs should offer this facility, to lessen the risk of being slammed.<br /><br />I've signed up.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18427000118752159232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-80049483413280982352015-05-30T21:58:43.740+01:002015-05-30T21:58:43.740+01:00"*unless* you're a non-small employer, in..."*unless* you're a non-small employer, in which case you suddenly have rights?"<br /><br />It's even dumber than that - if you have more than ten staff, you no longer have *any* rights in this respect. Want to switch ISP or telco? You might have to install a whole new line and cease the old one, if they don't decide to be helpful.<br /><br />In fact, the place I work for part-time has six directors and four other staff - plus a student on work-experience part of each year. Presumably under Ofcom's new insane rules this means if we want to switch ISP or telco again, we'll have to do it between interns?!jas88https://www.blogger.com/profile/05563592458314214904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-12585863045216271312015-05-30T21:20:15.215+01:002015-05-30T21:20:15.215+01:00Wow, that's just backwards.
Imagine if you c...Wow, that's just backwards. <br /><br />Imagine if you could simply close your bank account with a single letter. Oh wait, bad example! <br /><br />In this day and age anything like that is ripe for abuse - you only have to look at how the gas and electric systems for switching have been abused!<br /><br />I can't be the only person who has had a call from retension for a switch they know nothing about! <br />Very foolish. Nigelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570349252948836345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-47771460715934515912015-05-30T20:56:04.429+01:002015-05-30T20:56:04.429+01:00So... you can be slammed and have your communicati...So... you can be slammed and have your communications capability removed from you with less than two weeks notice (hope you never go on holiday!) *unless* you're a non-small employer, in which case you suddenly have rights?<br /><br />What a sodding awful system. (I can understand the point of it -- it stops failing or disastrously incompetent ISPs from locking people to them indefinitely -- but holy crap, could they come up with nothing better than this?!)Nick Alcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590610308528769844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-66203802408050889402015-05-30T19:42:47.214+01:002015-05-30T19:42:47.214+01:00Yeh, I re-read that when posting and wondered if I...Yeh, I re-read that when posting and wondered if I had read that the wrong way around. Even so, just means an anti-slamming service is even more legit,RevKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-90324502554734217032015-05-30T19:39:49.602+01:002015-05-30T19:39:49.602+01:00The clause refers to "consent by it (the Prov...The clause refers to "consent by it (the Provider)", there's no mention of the user's consent there.<br /><br />The "ten staff" thing is ludicrous - does Ofcom expect my local coffee shop to count up all the waiting staff and cleaners to determine whether or not they can change ISP for their hotspot now?<br /><br />I like the lock idea though - just like I have now on some of my domains, I can choose to lock or unlock the domain. If locked, nobody can submit a transfer request; if I do want to transfer it, I just click "unlock" before placing the order and everything works fine.<br /><br />(At the other end of the scale, my grandfather was talked into switching phone companies earlier this year by a cold-caller - an expensive mistake, and with few or no safeguards.)jas88https://www.blogger.com/profile/05563592458314214904noreply@blogger.com