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Originally Posted by Mick
I know what you are saying andy, but I feel that people will think that if they have more speed they can download more and with a 1.5MB connection it does open the scale up more, which is why I think personally, ntl need to review the cap for at least the 1.5MB customers.
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There is both a 'lag factor' and a correlation between BB capacity to user and volumes downloaded.
The 'lag factor' is that people do not immediately start to download more as their connection speed goes up.
There is also however a very real relationship between the speed of an end users connection and the voulmes they download (and upload) once the 'lag factor' is worked through. After all when TW (and shortly after NTL) finally start to offer 10mbs symetrical connections at the same price as 1mbs connections are now (in about say 3 years) people will not just grab all their data in 13.5 mins (by my very rough / quick calculation of a 1 gig cap) and be done with it. They will use more volumes up and down.
Or to put it another 'more realistic' way people DO download more with BB than they did with dial up - once they have worked through the lag factor. A mere 50% increase in speed may not make this obvious but once you start getting into 'true' digital economies of orders of magnitude (10* and 100*) increases then the realtionship becomes a lot clearer.