As Netflix's user base and usage have increased over the years, the company has worked to keep ISP's competitive and honest with regard to their promised connection speeds.
We have been promised connection of 17 minutes between Paris and New York, or 30 minutes from coast to coast in America.
A promised bus connection never came, and they sat out in the dark, freezing, with no word from railroad officials.
But the phones, which promise Internet connections fast enough to download audio and video files, snap and send photos and hold teleconferences, do not impress Mr. Ohno.
Ministers are also facing pressure to make sure the promised underground connection opens on time to serve the new US embassy that forms part of the site.
But in the end, despite all the promises, the connection did not exist, as Thomas Jefferson knew very well (his father, Peter Jefferson, had surveyed the Potomac to its disappointing sources).
M.T.A. Delays Service Improvements The Metropolitan Transportation Authority postponed $30 million in service improvements that it had promised in connection with recent fare and toll increases, saying its finances had worsened sharply, William Neuman reports.
Customers from various parts of Carmarthenshire have told BBC Wales they were promised broadband connection speeds of around 5Mbps by ResQNet, but say they have faced a disrupted and a patchy service in recent months.
"The federal government is not doing a good job of obtaining genuine market prices, and therefore the savings often promised in connection with outsourcing services are not being realized," the report said.
He has promised motorway connections and airports to towns so small that they still don't have a proper bus station.
