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Originally Posted by andygrif
Yes, your figures are spot on, but they do not tell the whole story, as not everyone is interested in how much data they can download, whilst still staying within the AUP, but rather how fast they can browse.
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If that's the case you only really need the 150k (or better the 300k when it's out), as there's very little benefit in browsing with much higher (certainly not at 1Mbps).
Sure it's faster but we're talking millisecond differences that make naff all difference to the user.
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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b
Not interested in being involved in this argument but just to point out 1Mbit users in no way subsidise other packages, quite the opposite in fact they are the least profitable of the tiers.
The argument that they subsidise the other tiers is based on all 1Mbit users sticking to 30GB a month - the vast majority don't, some pull 250GB or more. Add that to the extra congestion caused on the upstream path from the 1Mbit users with 256k uploads and it soon becomes clear that they are the least profitable tier, they pay the lowest rate per kbit of the tiers both now and in the future after the price increases etc while downloading markedly more than the other tiers.
... just giving you the facts to be honest, whether you want to believe me and anyone else who tells you this or not is entirely up to you, but the above are the incontrovertible facts.
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Okay, back these statistics up with evidence.
How do you know what the habits are of all the 1Mbps users on NTL and how do you know how profitable it is?