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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
Potential customers for BB services have a choice, in many ntl service areas between cable and ADSL. If you choose cable, for whatever reason, then it's ntl or nothing. If you choose ADSL, then you get a choice of many ISPs. Many users still do not have a choice as ADSL has not rolled out fully accross the country, or even where it has, if they want the top tier speeds they have to be close to the exchange. technically therefore tose who desire speed may not have a choice of service. In many ways ntl have a monopoly on choice.
If you compare overall the number of ADSL users to the number of NTL based users in a comparatively served area, what is ntl's market share - I doubt ntl would wish to publicise that.
If you are stuck with ntl as your only practical option, you are stuck with the limit. But that will harm ntl's long term development and market share.
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That's not ntl's fault that's upto to suppliers of the adsl network to do something about. Don't forget we don't cable a lot of the country and there are other cable suppliers in differect area's (telewest), and, in all honesty, there Broadband technology it a darn site more advanced than ours, half of the problem ntl have is the large shareholding that is owned by banks etc, they won't bankroll upgrades because of the cost involved, so the only way ntl can afford the upgrades etc is to use company cash which at the moment is very scarce. I do know however that ntl is reducing expenditure by getting rid of half full buildings etc.