From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:54:15 +0100   
   Marc Haber  wrote:   
      
   > The one thing that the fiber companies can to well is lying at the   
   > customer, for example sending sales people from door to door with the   
   > news that the residents MUST buy fiber because their DSL will be   
   > turned off and decommissioned "later this year" and that they will be   
   > without Internet if they don't sign up with the fiber company.   
      
   It's astonishing how blatant salesgoons are about this kind of thing.   
   When $EMPLOYER got acquired by another company a few years back, we had   
   a competitor running around telling customers our product was "going   
   away" and even pretending to be the official replacement. Naturally,   
   they said this over the phone rather than in an e-mail, so we never got   
   anything legally actionable on them...   
      
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