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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."

2 of 256 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Facebook bloat by Gabrill · · Score: 0, Troll

    Which isn't the same as using (all of) facebook, so you fail.

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    Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
  2. Re:need more speed! by Keep+Six · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oddly enough, I had to reset my modem/router after clicking this story. First time in years. My dad has a 'lite' package capped at 10 GB/month. They are calculating his usage at 10 times the actual use, just like the Verizon Math Fail of days gone by. I used his connection to d/l openSUSE11.2 (690 MB) and when I looked at his usage web page the next day it said I used over 6 GB.