WiFi Spark<\/a> charge their captive market \u00a36\/day for an advertised download speed of 1Mb.<\/p>\nBut hang on, VirginMedia charge me an equivalent \u00a31.58\/day for an actual download speed of 200Mb (and 20Mb upload).<\/p>\n
So WiFi Spark charge four times the price that VirginMedia charge, whilst the so-much-cheaper VirginMedia deliver a service that is actually 200 times faster than WiFi Spark promise to deliver?<\/p>\n
Yes, so it would seem.<\/p>\n
Anyway, because I had no alternative, I bit the exorbitant bullet and paid \u00a39\/day to WiFi Spark.<\/p>\n
And yet never once, in that 24 hour period, did I get anything above 250Kb download.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, I barely got over 100Kb download, and seldom got above 25Kb on the upload.<\/p>\n
So the service levels that WiFi Spark advertise are nothing more than made up numbers?<\/p>\n
So it would seem.<\/p>\n
And let’s look at those prices.<\/p>\n
Not an actual price of \u00a36\/day, but a true cost of \u00a39\/day for two devices.<\/p>\n
And if you have three devices, then the true cost\u00a0is \u00a312\/day (which doubles the advertised price).<\/p>\n
\u00a312\/day for shockingly awful levels of service.<\/p>\n
My phone tried to do an OS upgrade, and in 18 hours it still hadn’t downloaded the upgrade pack.<\/p>\n
18 hours!<\/p>\n
OK, so these are terrible levels of (paid through the nose) service, but that isn’t this point which has got me so (non-medically) inflamed.<\/p>\n
That there is no alternative.<\/p>\n
And presumably, because this has been allowed to continue, the NHS Trust that runs the hospital has never carried out a value-for-money service review?<\/p>\n
I doubt it.<\/p>\n
This is what has angered me.<\/p>\n
A full service review needs to happen, else the patients are just going to continue getting ripped off.<\/p>\n
And ripping off a bunch of people who are not only captive, but who are seriously unwell, is beyond unethical.<\/p>\n
It is a scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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