Ofcom imposes automatic compensation payments on UK ISPs

Most UK internet service providers have signed up to a scheme that will see them automatically compensate their customers for their failures.
Ofcom reckons UK internet subscribers will be due £142 in payouts at current levels of ball-dropping, which will be nine times more than they currently get. While that’s obviously good news for consumers, the amounts involved still seem pretty poor compensation for not being able to get online.The first lot of £8 only kicks in after you&r