As a telecom provider, we are endlessly quoting to retain business against "Free Broadband" offers from other companies. This often involves spending hours looking through terms and conditions on a provider's website in order to establish the true cost and to demonstrate to the customer that there is no actual saving but instead a higher rental cost over the contract term.
2 Circles has always had an open and honest policy when providing our clients with contract costs. In the short term, the new tighter rules will not affect us as a business. No advertising details will need to be changed in our literature or on our website. However, in the long-term, it will save us hours of digging through terms and conditions to find hidden costs that our clients have not been made aware of. A great move in the telecoms industry!
Broadband adverts will become clearer from May after research found "misleading" advertising meant three in four customers could not work out the true cost of a deal. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is set to bring in tighter rules around advertising after finding that providers were confusing customers. The study carried out jointly by ASA and Ofcom, the telecoms regulator, found the majority of consumers were unable to work out the total monthly cost of a broadband deal based on advertising
