Quite often Internet Service Providers advertise their quantities in multiples of bits such as Kilobits, or Megabits, but what most consumers don’t know is that these speeds are not industry standard quantities. Industry standard quantities are quite similar sounding, but a massive 8 times more than the ISP’s favorite method. Most people don’t know that 1 byte is equal to 8 bits, and that therefore 1KB equals 8Kb, it’s hard to tell the difference because the only difference is the capitlisation of the “b”. This is a great cause of confusion for most people, who potentially get eight times less quantity than they pay for, while the ISP captialises on their confusion. An example of the difference is that a customer knows that the industry standard for a DVD is 4.7GB, and think that a 5Gb limit would be enough to fill it, however the customer would actually need a massive 37.6Gb to fill a DVD. There is also the problem of ISP’s turning a blind eye to salespeople using the wrong terms either through lack of knowledge, or through complete fabrication, this practice has to stop, it is defrauding customers, who make commitments of up to 2 years on their technology, and worst of all there is no need for the use of the secondary terminology.

We propose:

THAT: All advertisements of electronic volumes shall use the international standard of B (Bytes) KB (Kilobytes), MB (Megabytes), GB (Gigabytes), TB(Terabytes), any attempt to use a suffix of b (bits) instead of B (bytes) in advertising broadband shall be taken to be an attempt to decieve.