fraudband

n. low-quality broadband Internet service. Subjects: English, Online, Technology, Derogatory, Slang

Editorial Note: This term is especially common in Australia, although it has been repeatedly recoined throughout the Anglophone world.

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Citations: 2000 [LCK] Usenet: alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Oct. 20) “Re: OT: The shortest AT&T Digital Cable experience ever!”: If you have any reason to go cable instead of satellite (nothwithstanding bozak’s recs), then it might be worth one more phone call to AT&T FraudBand. 2001 Azeem Azhar Guardian (United Kingdom) (June 14) “Second sight—broadband access” p. 10: Broadband offers three advantages over vanilla modem connections.…But for the overwhelming majority, it doesn’t allow them to do much they could not do before. Perhaps fraudband would be a better term. 2001 [Angry spatula (Nicklas Johnson)] Morons.org (Nov. 26) “Morons in the News: Sprint Fraudband Defect”: I will illustrate for you how Sprint has perverted the truth and misrepresented facts, causing me to surrender my valuable time and money. The best way to do this is with Sprint Fraudband Defect’s own words. 2005 Jaggy Overthrow (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, xxxIndia) (Nov. 22) “Who said the Broadband has arrived in India?”: My Sify Broadband (Fraudband?) connection has went off again. Did the whole process again, registered a complaint with its “so-called-customer-care.” 2007 Karon Snowdon, Paul Budde ABC Radio Australia (June 22) “Years behind region on broadband”: There is a huge pent up demand in Australia for good quality broadband services. It has to be affordable, then you will start seeing that a majority of Australians that are now on what’s called “Fraudband” yeah, will actually move to real good quality broadband within the next two years.

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