[access-uk] Internet radio update
- From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
- To: "Access UK Mailing List" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:38:39 -0000
Hi All
Pin your ears back as I have an update that might be of interest to some.
My last post to this list on the thread of Internet radios intimated I would
let you know how I got on with a web radio that TNAUK are trialing. A couple
of weeks ago, they agreed to send me a web radio when a customer who had
finished with their set returned it to them.
At the end of last week, however, I got an Email from Ted Davis to say that he
had a web radio in stock if I wanted to purchase it for £275.00. So I thought
to myself, in typical Jackie fashion: "Why would I want to buy a web radio if
the trial is still going on, and nobody has forked out any money for these sets
to my knowledge?" So I contacted TNAUK today, and spoke to Ted's colleague,
Luke.
The full story appears to be this. TNAUK are lending 15 web radios to people
at the moment to trial. Anyone over and above those 15 who express an interest
in the box must pay £275.00 for the privilege of owning one. The trial ends at
the end of February, but, he tells me, things look "promising." According to
TNAUK, RNIB have come to the same conclusion as TNAUK that this way forward is
the best solution.
I asked Luke how I would be supported with a web radio if I bought one, and he
said that if I wanted an Internet radio station added to it, I could contact
them with the details, and they would have it put in for me without the radio
being returned to TNAUK. I used the scenario of wanting Sky Radio in it, and
he said this would be possible. I then asked about future upgrades and
support, and he said that it depended on what was to happen after the trial.
So my conclusion is that they appear to want to sell you a web box, but can't
guarantee you its lifespan after the trial ends next month with the 15
recipients who are doing that for nothing.
Since I am under no disclosure, I don't see why you shouldn't be aware of this
information. But I'm trying to suppress my own thoughts because I can't decide
whether it's me who is going mad, or whether this whole thing has a very nasty
taste about it.
Sorry for the long post, but that's the latest.
Jackie
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