Hi,
I would like to know from you guys that live in UK, how does the ISP works there. I'll try to explain what I mean:
Here in my country, to have an adsl connection you should, along subscribing the telephone company (for me they are the ISP) for the ADSL connection, subscribe to another service, which they call themselves "Provedor de internet" or in english "Internet provider". In fact, recently they have changed to "Provedor de conteúdo" or "Content provider", which provides the users news, email, and such. We are trying, along Justice ministry to change that policy that "we need to subscribe to an additional content provider", because in fact we really dont need them. Here that characterizes "venda casada" or something like "twice sale" (where you cant sell a service and force the customer to buy, along that service, another one) and its forbidden by law. The telephone company insists that the connection is made by the content provider whereas almost everybody knows that its not. They even changed the way we connect to the internet just to try to convince people they are right. But it seems to be in vain. Now they are saying that the Content provider is to provider the user the DNS servers to resolve the addresses. Bahhhhhhhh f*** o**. Other telephone company or ISP provides ADSL without the need of subscribing a content provider. But this one just insists that it is needed for conection.
Did you get how bad it is? the process is running for almost 3 years but we have hope :p
So, the question is: in UK, or USA (if you know how it works there), along subscribing to adsl service, do you still need to subscribe to a content provider? or that bs only happens here? lol