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Originally Posted by PC_Arcade
I think the whole capped usage thing is ultimately destructive for ISP's, customers vote with their wallets and it will only take BT's customers being charged silly amounts for a couple of linux distros or NTL's hard enforcement of caps and people will start looking for cap free providers. The same thing happened with dial-up with people moving to free usage as soon as it became available.
Companies (like NTL and BT) that don't listen to what their customers want will ultimately lose those customers to companies (like BulldogDSL and AOL) who do.
I've been happy in the main with NTL for ~3 years now and have no intention of changing, but the SECOND they start to enforce the cap, I'm off to an ISP that has no cap  |
I've said this before, And I'll say it again, Uncapped ISP's are a dying breed, really, they are, because the more people who go to them because of the uncapped service, the less profit they will make.
Bandwidth is expensive, very expensive, as more and more ISPs add caps, the ones who dont, will be hit harder and harder by customers who abuse the unlimited services, which over time will force them to increase their price, or add caps, either way, anyone who downloads more than 40GB a month, costs the ISP more than they get back from them.
If the only reason to change ISP is a cap, and not quality of service, or reliability, then your reasoning is flawed.