It looks like we're back to the same situation we had when all the phone companies started to sell 24/7 connection for only £5.99 a month. They forget to tell you that they only want you to stay connected for only 7 hours a day. If a company sells a service to me than I am going to use it when I want to and for as long as I want to. If NTL said straight off, you can only download 1gb a day do you think I would have subscribed, no way.
I understand about contention and if 20 neighbours were using NTL broadband all at the same time then the service would be pretty poor and you would have to be very unlucky if you were ever in that situation. However, the one's with any common sense would then decide to ditch NTL and pay someone else to deliver them a decent service.
'stealing from ntl '