Not sure on these Billions of replies if this has been mentioned but how much you pay is all compared to what is around you at the time. I remember paying for Dial up + Call Costs (wayyy back) then ISDN from thos lovelry BT people and then Call Charges on top of that - whey hey ...
I paid £50 a month for 1 mbit from NTL when it first come out, people where paying bags of dosh every month for 2mbit/256 were they not - mainly as the lower contention ratio....
I still say what NTL should do is split there product up even more - so you could have say 5-6 of them. People can then choose to pay for what they deem they want to use. You need 2 'Lite' Packages - this has a Proper CAP imposed but the price is well low (maybe they can check ADSL prices to pitch this in at) and include no email, no newsgroups etc.
Next up is the 'Home' User lets call it - no caps - email and limited news support. Maybe add some proper email space while there at it (PHP etc).
Lastly would be the 'power' user - 1mbit / 1.5mbit / 2mbit - fixed Ip, Full News Servers, Proper email (that actually works) and decent web space.
Now all you gotta do (not sure if this is possible like) is bunch the people together like - so a heavy user does not effect a normal user in any way.
I do like Erol little toliet thing - made me laugh that did
