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Re: Another speed?

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Originally Posted by Mark B

I would concur that the most popular service is now the 300k. For the vast majority of customers I deal with, this is more than adequate for their needs.

There may well be a demand for higher speeds among the power users on this site...and in fact, I would include myself in that....but across the user base of ntl as a whole, there'd be little demand. There is not THAT much demand for the 1.5mb service really.

I think the reality is, it won't happen.

I honestly think a 3Meg service from NTL wont happen, but one from Telewest/NTL will do, If and when they merge, it wont be exactly good PR for the overtaking party not to normalise the products and services over time, that would include pricing, and of course, services.

I myself wouldnt mind 3Meg, however, I would much rather have a slower, more reliable service. (Like my 1.5meg Currently is, rock solid, mwahahahahahahahaahaha *Gets hit by rock*) ow, oh, and a price drop wouldnt go amiss, ieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *runs

Re: Another speed?

While me soap box is still out and warm, i just thought of some more stuff to add to this thread. Equipment - every day/week/month that goes buy better stuff comes out and get cheaper - the more you make and sell, the cheaper it is to produce. Now what does this mean? well a ISP like say NTL need Servers so the initial cost is high but should have paid for itself 5x over by now. The cables in the ground, there def not leasing them are they off some company. My point is basically once the infrastructure is in place, over a few years it start to make money for itself (NTL) but if they work close enough with the other ISP's then maybe they can keep the price artifically high, a scarce comminidty so to speak.

So lets take Bull dog's idea shall we - they sell and probably make most of there money by selling to business, now they allow us mere mortals to cream off the un-used bandwidth later on when the companies lock there doors for the night and is sitting un-used.

So on that idea, here is one that could work no problem in a lot of area's but of course not all. On the UBR not all of the bandwidth is used and probably a lot of the time maybe uses about 50% lets say (my guess, could be way off) - so why not allow or introduce variable bandwidth so they have products like 1.5mbit/256 but it can go as high as 3mbit/400 say as a guess *IF* there is bandwidth around, as soon as people start soaking up the bandwidth then it goes back down to your rate.

Not all people upload/download 24/7 and this idea would be good - what u all think?