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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
We have plently of examples of flat rate pricing in the UK: postage - it costs me as much to send a letter to my neighbour as it does to the other end of the country; Council Tax - my wheelie bin is nearly almost only 1/2 full each week, my neigbours is usually overflowing, but we both pay the same effective contribution. I could go on.
The majority of users like flat rate pricing structures, as they know where they are with them, and don't have to worry about use. Even ntl in promoting their telephone services encourage the model as it will be cheaper for the customer who makes lots of calls. It's the whole idea of the concept.
For flat price models to work, it's up to the supplier, to price the service accordingly.
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I agree, and this where ntl has created a rod for its own back I think. They have encouraged people to 'use more' and pay the same amount, not only with the internet, but now the phone calls too.
So people duly do as they are instructed, and use it more. Then ntl comes along as says 'you're using it too much' and surprise surprise people are angry at this.
If ntl want to limit people's online activity, then quite simply 'all you can eat' style pricing will not work. And it will only get worse, with more and more broadband enabled content out there (including their own Broadband Plus) even lighter users download rates are going to increase still further, putting greater loads on the network for everyone.
This whole discussion about people downloading more than 1gb has gone on for months and months now and after a lot of thought the only sensible and fair (to both ntl and customer) pricing method will be pay for what you use.