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Originally Posted by SMHarman
But see my post (14) for the disincentive for them to do that though.
Your £50 or 10 customers £17.99. I know which I would prefer.
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Hmm this dont fit in though, why provide 750 and 1.5mbit then?
Let do the sums:
1 x 300 = loads of people on UBR (i think) and gets £17.99 a month
1 x 750 24.99 - starting to loose some money now and can fit 2 1/2 300 users
1 x 1.5mit a whopping 5 300k users = £89 a month vs £37.99
How do Telewest make money as they offer 3mbit and use if im not mistaken the same kit right? WHy not follow Telewest lead on this, it makes sense as it claws back money. You have speed 300, 750, 1.5mbit and 3mbit, you charge one price for CM only (higher price) and if they take out TV and Phone then it comes down.
As with anything in the world, something is only worth what people will pay for it. At the moment i agree you have certain choices depending on where you live. You can have CM as above, depending on TW or NTL top si 1.5/3mbit sort of thing. Now if you have ADSL you can go upto 2mbit and if your really special you can get Bulldog which goes uto 8mbit i think.
People still have the shopping Mall mentality - a bigger box is cheaper then buying 2 small ones, of course there is a marketing reeason for this as more you have the longer it will be before you try another brand. In throey then, 1.5mbit should be double the price of 750 as your getting twice the speed, but in reality is only £13 more not £24.99 more.
Im suprised that the 1.5mbit is so low a product as mentioned but then again with imposing limits why on earth would you pay loads of dosh for something that you could potentialy overuse and effect your entire area? Odd that if 1mbit before and also 600 caused such a problem with people damm well downlaoding and uploading all the time, how does uppping the speed make any sense at all?
Oh as a side note to first thing, if NTL only supplied 300k as there one and only connection then i would expect a LOT of people would switch, if they could to ADSL withouth a flicker of a eye lid - so that argument is null and void to be honest. As was said - if BT provided 3mbit, NTL would follow suit in a Heart beat, roll on Telewest/NTl Merger