Rosemary Haworth

All-you-can-eat broadband isn't all it's cracked up to be -- at least as far as some consumers are concerned. Disgruntled customer Kevin Peel has started an e-petition asking U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair to "insist that Ofcom and the Advertising Standards Authority stop broadband providers advertising 'unlimited' services that are, in fact, limited in the small print by undefined fair use policies".

People thinking of throwing out their handsets the moment threatened price hikes by mobile telcos kick in are being urged not to.