{"id":475,"date":"2007-05-11T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T22:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=475"},"modified":"2007-05-11T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T22:42:08","slug":"faster-cheaper-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Faster, cheaper broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I sit on two statutory consumer bodies &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcomconsumerpanel.org.uk\/\">Ofcom Consumer Panel<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postwatch.co.uk\/\">Postwatch Council<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not a very active consumerist myself. I guess I value my time more than my money. But even I had come to the conclusion that it was ridiculous that I was still spending \u00a323.44 a month for a broadband connection of 1.1 Mbps.<br \/>\nSo I made a phonecall, said that I was thinking of switching to another Internet service provider, and asked what they could offer me to stay with them. My subscription is now down to \u00a310 a month and my connection speed is up to 3.7 Mbps. It was sure worth the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I sit on two statutory consumer bodies &#8211; the Ofcom Consumer Panel and the Postwatch Council &#8211; I&#8217;m not a very active consumerist myself. I guess I value my time more than my money. But even I had come to the conclusion that it was ridiculous that I was still spending \u00a323.44 a month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}