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Originally posted by mmm
An average 80,000 users paying £25/ month gives £2 miilion per month. Over 48 months that makes £96 miilion turnover. Definitely scope for both AOL and ntl to make money (and BT to loose ...)
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OK have people thought this through.....
NTL allow AOL to use its network to acces AOL's BB services.
But HOW MUCH of NTLs network can AOL use?
They may only be allowed to connect to the local part (the HFC) bit by using their own UBRs. (effectively the same as the ruling about unbundling the BT local loop!)
If that is the case, AOL have (very effectively) got around the very bottleneck that meant the introduction of the cap.
Remember in the Goodland interview with angryntl, BG stated that it was the UBRs that were oversubscribed, and that the rest of the network could easily cope.
So AOL install their own UBRs, and the result is no overcapacity for AOL users (and perhaps a moneyspinner in that a certain amount of UBR capacity is sold back to NTL to allow them to attract new subscribers)