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Really Misleading Ads From Broadband Providers

Posted by timothy on from the should-have-been-in-the-tos dept.

Bourdain writes "Gizmodo has put together a good compilation of the — seemingly almost criminally — misleading (largely plain wrong) advertising from our favorite local monopolies. My personal favorite is from AT&T which states you need 3mbps to use social networking sites like Facebook."

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  1. Re:0_0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some companies add latency and lag to their lower end connections to get people to pay up for higher speed ones.

    [citation needed]