6mb Blueyonder Rumour
 

Specualtion about 6mb over on overclockers
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=17386257

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Should be interesting if it's true.

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Blah blah caps blah blah existing customers blah blah rip off blah blah profiteering blah blah all you can eat buffets blah blah blah.

There...I've completed this thread for you, so you can close it now! :D

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6mb....I'd be a hazard to BY with a service like that, roll on May.

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I suppose the speculation will quickly change to NTL with Simon Duffys presentation talking about trials that began last month on 18Mbps ADSL2 over NTL copper. That may take a back seat though to his mention of VDSL2 which should have its standard set in May and can deliver up to 100 Mbps.

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interesting time ahead methinks :erm: :D :D :D :D

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I honestly think they should miss 6mbit out and go 10mbit, they need to be the first in the market place to offer this speed in order to attract new customers (assuming they have a cable running down their street!).

I can see BY having the following packages with NO CAPS (well I'd like to see this...) 10mbit - £50, 8mbit - £40, 6mbit - £30, 4mbit - £25, 2mbit - £20, 256k - £15 (yes that's all some people need, i.e. my parents).

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No caps? Not if NTL take-over/merge!

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The 256k service will be upgraded to 512k in the next month or two so the entry level £15 service will be 512k, I always thought that Telewest has more of the cable market then NTL am I wrong in this? as Telewest now have over 2 million, internet, tv or phone customers. So wouldn't it be the other way round? telewest taking over NTL.

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Just a tad wrong. ntl serves over 3 Million internet, tv and phone customers. :)

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Telewest's entry level service is £17.99 a month (£14.99 is an offer) :)

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It would be amazing if prices were equivalent to the rest of lets say EU or NA. Paying £25= $50CAD for 1mb? In Canada I paid $40 for 6mb cable! :)

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I sometimes find it tricky to get the full 4mbit on BY in my area (Liverpool), and I put this down to Telewest not allocating enough bandwidth to the loop that my cable modem is on - after all, I live in a student area and I think there are a quite a few customers who spank the connection all day long.

For this reason, I don't really want them to introduce a 6/8/10mbit service without first working out their bandwidth allocation. It's not fair that I pay £50/month for a 4mbit service and don't get it because they're too tight to buy a bigger pipe for everyone in the area.

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There are areas like that in every cable operator in the world's network sadly. Cablecos can upgrade endlessly and the bandwidth will just get eaten, literally nothing that they can do about it as you can only upgrade so far.

Other issue of course is from the cableco's point of view why should they throw tens of thousands at an area that'll take ages to make that money back, if ever?

Anyway as I said about this rumour at the time, quoting the original post... Well, it's June now, so that's about the end of that one, as I've endlessly wittered on abot this it's conjecture, there's a 10Mbit trial towards the end of the year, and depending on the results of that and availability of appropriate hardware for Telewest's use this will see a launch commercial in 2006.

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In my view, if they say "this is the price for this level of service" then they should honour that. They know how much bandwidth they need for the area from the amount of money they make off subscriptions, so they should install enough capacity to make sure that everyone can get the bandwidth they pay for.

I might as well just downgrade to 2mbit, save myself £20/month and actually get all the speed that I pay for. I'm only on the 4mbit because I share with 6 other people and it doesn't take much for someone to eat all the bandwidth on a smaller connection, even with the QoS on my router.

I don't like to say this, but I don't have this problem at home on NTL...