ONdigital ought to address error

ONdigital chief executive Stuart Prebble’s objective of achieving a leading position in the pay-TV market “even if we were incompetent” may be questioned even now (MW July 13). The photograph of ONdigital’s TV e-mail shows that even spelling “address” correctly is beyond it.

Perhaps Prebble should consult more Web-heads before trying to convince us all to ditch our personal computers.

John Elcock

Managing director

Aquarium Web Design

Liverpool

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