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Cap issues do drift away from the original concept of is the price increase, especially broadband, justified. Simply put no.

Caps, even if some consider them to be idle threats, perhaps make the waters more muddy and make the "capped" offerring less attractive than the uncapped. I suspect however the real issue of caps, which was not the point of this thread, was upload not download capacity, whcih ntl's capping policy failed to address.

The point is to look at the base line cost of the service. If you can get cheaper elsewhere, that's where customers will go. On that basis ntl shot themsleves in the foot.

However the subsequent announcement, nodoubt to keep pace with Telewest, of speed increases in BB speeds makes confuses issues. It will be interesting whether punters (excepting the aggravation of chaning from cable to ADSL), want extra speed but pay more, or slightly lesser speed and pay a little less.

We may need to start calculating on the basis of £ per mbps, with a separate table of £ per MB download and work out from that what we, the punter are prepared to pay.