Telewest are hopeless
Along the lines of the NTL ripoff, however I am blighted with a Telewest rip off. Let this be a warning to you all. If you move into a soap dodging tax evader high-density population area for the love of all that is Holy do not, under ANY circumstances buy the cheapest internet/tv/phone package out there, which for me happened to be Telewest because every aforementioned soap dodger will probably have the same deal. And Telewest will hide behind their small print and fob you off with patronising bullshit. Useless twunting helpless bastards.

6 months of frustratingly slow internet. Even an upgrade from 4 meg to 10 meg part way to silence my complaints. Did it work? Did it fuck. So a 9 page complaint letter to their head office, followed shortly by a call back from the dizzying heights of the MD’s office in Manchester. A full refund for the cost of the broadband services for the 6 months (£260 and they’ve charged me for VAT again! - not entirely sure how they reached that figure anyway) thus far and free broadband for the remainder of the year’s contract.

So I’m being ripped off for free internet! Curses! Not technically being ripped off if it’s free am I? Well anyway it’s still shit (makes dial up look like El Speedy Gonzalez himself) and I want some recompense for the countless hours I’ve spent being transferred back and forth form one technical idiot (sorry, Technical Support Operative) to another and they still refuse to fix it, saying they haven’t had sufficient volume of complaints yet. Damn lazy students, happy to rinse broadband for more pron and torrented movies than you can shake a stick at whilst not complaining about getting sub standard internet. Damn you all!
(Stanlington Jobsworthy Smythe Last skived off work on, Tue 20 Feb 2007, 16:16, Reply)