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Old 26-06-2004, 13:53   #672
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Re: 1GB Cap Letter!!!!

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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b
Constant stream of users inwards seems to suggest that with or without this selling point the uptake is ticking along nicely.

If anything AOL are redressing a balance on their service, your traditional AOL user isn't particularly bandwidth hungry and perhaps they have some room there for some more hungry users.

Attracting heavy users intentionally is certainly an interesting policy, however as far as ADSL services go there is plenty of similarly priced and unlimited competition there for AOL, as far as AOL over cable goes they pay ntl anyway so I don't think ntl will be crying too much over it all.

In my opinion usage restrictions are an important part of maintaining balance in a shared bandwidth environment, where there's room for flexibility all good however the ability to restrict insane usage should be there and should be exercised where appropriate.
So AOL users on cable modems are uncapped in respect of bandwidth yet NTL users are capped. It proves that NTL capped its own users to allow un capped use for AOL.
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