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Originally Posted by BBKing
Are they Mystic Meg? Forward planning is sometimes limited by human frailties. Who'd heard of mass-market high speed internet access in 1990?
The network had to be upgraded for DOCSIS to work, in many places. And of course ntl didn't build very much of it in the first place, so I don't think there can be much blame apportioned to people working for a different company seven years beforehand.
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While we're at it why didn't they plan for the rise of Napster and peer to peer traffic which eventually forced the development of the DOCSIS2.0 protocol? Did they honestly think people would just be downloading the odd bit here and there and web browsing 5 years ago, rather than the multi-GB/day usage that a minority use and others promote?
Should've followed the US system of constantly cutting customer's bandwidths and making usage restrictions stricter, and/or contended to death, as the US is a bastion of how to do high speed access.
</sarcasm, but some of this was silly :p >
