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@fatlark 3543 wrote:
I live in Wrexham south and until recently used a dongle which sometimes gave me 3mgs. I rang B.T. and they promised me at least 4mgs as they said they had upgraded their equipment, after numerous phone calls and two engineers visiting I now have half a megabyte ( when it decides to work at all ) and a £100 bill for the engineers visit!. I spend most of my time on the computer watching it buffering. to have 4mgs would be bliss. if B.T. had told the truth I wouldn’t be in this ridiculous situation.
I had the same issue in the past, checked teh speed before I moved to a new house, BT operator said they will offer at least 2mbps , I got what you got but with lots of interference ad disconnections.. what i did , i kept reporting faults, obviously those people in India could not solve, therefor BT was charged 13 times Openreach fees.
They wanted me to stick with the contract which they lied about in the first place..
I went to the ombudsman which was even worse and took the side of BT but I won in the end..
Exactly, capitalism, and based on that, company A should follow company B methodology, not follow your advice (you mentioned in post 11) because it is a shorter and simpler and lower cost way to make money..
The generation that currently controls mid-sized businesses in the UK, is the generation that still believe in shops,premises and the traditional way of doing business with moving wisely online, however the next generation isn’t like that, and in 20 years time you will see what impact this move will have on the society.
Don’y understand me wrong, I am not against the online business, it does help me finding cheaper products and it helps traders ,specially people who make fair living out of it, lone parents selling on Ebay, that’s a good thing.
still distance trade needs to be controlled in more efficient way.You mentioned something about trademarks being sold by the administrator, I can tell this is just ridiculous and it does not belong to capitalism or fair trade in anyway. Trademark for failing entities should not be sold individually, they should be sold along with the debts.This is business.
company’s aim is to make profitable business, not just to make profit..
profitable business means tangible and intangible profit/benefits..tangible profit is what you refer to as profit and intangible profit is what I refer to as investing in people and paying a share to the society they making their money out of..
As I said sacking people to make more profit should not be an option, you find them something to do or spend on training and developing them, however, if you decided to go with the less employees option, then based on the new tax rate the tax man should be able get from you what you were suppose to be spending on the workers you sacked, but you still have a profit to walk away with.
Woolworths went down, employees walked away empty handed..two months after that we all found Woolworths back online with what’s called a trade mark new owner, starting all over again free of all the previous commitments.
HMV will be the same..just wait..employees walk away empty handed, then the brand will be sold and bought and will go online up and running.
Online business needs to be controlled and the only way to control it is with the tax man knocking on their doors.@Rob 3327 wrote:
RE: abidwd – I dont claim to have all the answers but the likes of Google are largely automated now, even Amazon is automated in terms of ‘picking’ items and sales. Lots and lots of revenue is even third party for some such as Play.com and Ebay where it is the likes of me and you interacting and they facilitate the transaction.
Therefore on a ‘worked hour’ basis it wouldnt raise much in tax, and even if a quote for say a CPU cycle or £ value was attributed you just move the servers to somewhere else and pay their tax not ours.
The new digital economy is key and although jobs are lost due to it, many are created for example money is flowing into hosting / cloud / app development and the like.
Rob,
let me say it in a different way.
a long time going company (A) with 40 workers and generate 2 million per year of net profit.
should not pay the same tax rate as
a new company (B) of the same kind with 10 workers and generates 2 million per year of net profit.
otherwise, company (A) will try to copy company (B) methodology and sack 30 workers thinking that they can cut the cost of production and increase the profit.
Amazon and Play.com are examples, however many businesses around the country sacked the workers and moved online.
Sacking people to make more profit should have a price, and at the moment it is very cheap.
Online only traders should no be treated the same with respect to the tax rate. In the end of the day the best selling product in Amazon is a chinese made linux run ereader which I love , imagine how much money they made out of this kit, and what taxes they pay for the profit the make from selling the device and the ebooks considering the number of workers they hire.
if Amazon to go because of the high tax rate, some other business will fit in. simple as.PS: play.com is a Jersey-based Chinese company.
How much money Google and Facebook make out of advertising in the UK?!! do you think considering the number of workers they hire, the tax they pay on their operations in the UK is enough?the best solution is a new tax system, should put more tax on businesses hiring less people and making huge money, play, amazon, google.
I dont understand how a company hires hundreds of thousands of people can pay the same tax rate as a company hires hundreds and making millions of pounds in profit gets transfered to Luxembourg and USA.
the solution is a rate based on profit per 1 hour labour worked ratio.@thewayneinspain 3322 wrote:
as far as i remember re: data protection – a recruitment company can keep the records for as long as they deem they are needed.
Remember the information belongs to you, so you can ask them to delete the data or find out what data they have on you.
better not to burn bridges and say with a polite smile “can i clarify what data you have for me” rather than frown ” tell me what data you have on me.”
In the end recruitment companies are like estate agents, they are the agent for both the seller and the buyer whilst make as much money as they can for themselves.
Sorry, my mistake, i was not clear on this, you are correct ,ACT 98 does say what period.
I meant to say not allowed to share your data, meaning after a period of time, they cannot just fax your CV over to a client with your permission.Seems like everyone who works in GAP called Donna..
anyway, seen worse than that, some agencies tried to charge me for having my CV on their database.
I also got refused when I applied for a job on minimum wages because when I had their test I scored 94.7% instead of 95%.
As far as I know, agencies only allowed to have your personal data on their system for a period of time only, used to be 6 months (not sure if this has changed). however, what they do is when the 6 months due to finish they phone you up and offer to put your details through for a vacancy (might not exist anyway), if you said yes , then your 6 months will be renewed automatically.The best thing you can do, as I can see you are looking for a job, you go direct to factories, supermarkets and knock on their doors, even if they outsource their hiring, the manager can phone up the agency and asks for you specifically, then they can arrange for you to sign up.
Equal opportunities policies do not work in most cases, but not all businesses prefer foreign workers, and do not think that local authorities do not know how agencies make money.Good luck
This is the original statement from BT
BT Press ReleasesWe did not get CONFUSED, the statement was FALSE.
at the end of the above statement, a note was added (not sure when) ,and not sure why it was not included within the statement in the first place, as it basically means that some areas in Wrexham will not benefit from this service soon.
read this note, and decide whether we are as customers got confused or BT is missing with us..because the (some areas) turned to be (nearly all of the Wrexham area)
“Due to the current network topography, and the economics of deployment, it is likely that some premises within selected exchange areas will not initially be able to access fibre-based broadband. Openreach is considering alternative solutions for these locations.”
