Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications
 
Mythbusters

  • Is this site really necessary?
  • Don't 'free' ISPs kill your argument?
  • Unmetered local calls will never happen
  • But electricity and gas are metered
  • The problem is the cost of PCs
  • The network can't cope!
  • Dial 999 for unmetered
  • Metered local call charges are reasonable
  • Why should I pay for someone else's calls?
  • Computer gamers will cause trouble
  • ISP charges would replace phone charges
  • An American Mythbuster
  • Unmetered calls would trouble ISPs
  • People on low incomes would be affected
  • Unmetered calls would favour the South-East
  • Mythbusters

    There are many myths about the supposed difficulty, or even impossibility, of unmetered telecommunications. Some come from the telecommunications industry; others are the sort of things people think up off the top of their heads to rationalise what they're experiencing; yet more have always been around and are really urban legends.

    No matter where they came from, the myths have largely been unchallenged ... until now. Click on any of the myths listed above to see it challenged.

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