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thisoldman
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Registered: ‎06-04-2009

Re: Christmas


Wink  nozzer: you are either joking or you are a prime candidate for admission to broadmoor.

I once commented that i did not think it was a good idea to post plusnet dirty linen on these forum pages  eg  complaints  but i was shot down by staff screaming      transparency, and now we have a post from matt saying we will not discuss business models in public.
well thats fair  but dont use transparency  in the same breath.
James
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Registered: ‎04-04-2007

Re: Christmas

Not so much.
We wouldn't post our key business models along with our financial modelling, etc.  I'd be surprised if other companies did, mainly as they wouldn't want their competitors seeing Smiley
However, we do offer transparency by making sure our customers are informed when we're doing some maintenance work, something isn't working, etc.
gswindale
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Registered: ‎05-04-2007

Re: Christmas

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adam:........how can nightshift workers get free access?  they cant....so thta is indirect discrimination.

The same way as I can.  I'm asleep during the majority of the "free off peak" hours, so where is the incentive for me?  If I worked a shift job; I'd stand some chance of benefitting depending on the hours I work.
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I once commented that i did not think it was a good idea to post plusnet dirty linen on these forum pages  eg  complaints  but i was shot down by staff screaming      transparency, and now we have a post from matt saying we will not discuss business models in public.

Customer feedback & business models are not really comparable are they?  One you can find out by just searching and reading reviews - the other is confidential information.
Laser
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Registered: ‎23-09-2007

Re: Christmas

FWIW in my experience Christmas day is dead by comparison to normal traffic. I guess most people are preoccupied with other things. (Or too full of food & drink to move the mouse!)
From that POV it could be regarded as off-peak, but I suspect PN wouldn't have any incentive to have the hassle of allowing a one-day change to the accounting rules just for that.
What is interesting though, is the responsiveness of both PN's servers and the internet in general, even though I'm on an "unthrottled" package. It shows what broadband could be, if we didn't have all the traffic bottlenecking (artificial or otherwise).  Shocked
TicnTac
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Re: Christmas

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With regard to carrying over unused usage, this isn't how our products were worked out but as we've said before we're not going to discuss the workings and economics of our products in public I'm afraid.

I could be wrong but me thinks you're a PLC Public Limited Company, which means every little detail of accounting is and can be made public, same with BT, reports are produced once a year if I am correct? So where is the harm?
If you did let us all know......
.....what would happen?
Would Plusnet be found out in doing something wrong which is why it won't go public?  Shocked
Will there be masses of redunduncies, and slowly Plusnet will fall apart and get re-absorbed back into BT?  Shocked
Would we all have to be shot after finding out such information?  Shocked
Is the information as such that other ISP's would fall over in shock that they missed out on such a brilliant con idea  Wink
So............why? After all this is the Christmas thread - good will an all? Honesty? Little angels and pretty lights, nice stars, the birth of Jesus Christ...........forgive and forget etc. etc.................so come on, let Plusnet come clean this Christmas, be honest, let us in on it. It can't be that bad? You aren't conning us, you aren't lying to us, remember, this is Good, Honest, Broadband, so open up, let it all out...........can cause problems when you bottle things up you know Wink
Merry Christmas Everyone Smiley