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No fine.

I actually disagree with you. The users who gain the extra speed will probably realise they can do more with their connection than they have been and will begin to make use of it more for the activities that before just took too long.

What it will I hope do is give everyone a fair chance to get what they are paying for, and inspire those who were previously reluctant or unable to do bandwidth intensive tasks to begin to watch that 750k streaming movie trailer, use newsgroups and download music and video.

The savings from the 5% will fund the extra benefits for the 95%. In my opinion this is a good thing.

Until the capacity ntl have is unmetered, it's tricky to do a model of unmetered access to customers, especially with the huge disparity in usage between heavy and light, without an equivalent disparity in how much they are paying.

Also this allows innovations such as the big speed increases, allows better planning of future upgrades, and most of all allows prices to be competitive, without having to worry how much extra needs to be provisioned for those who have a mission to download the entire Internet Movie Database.

I would love a capped but higher speed package, sadly not going to happen at the moment. But I want to do things FAST. These upgrades will for the majority take some of the wait out of using the internet and inspire new uses. You can please some people all of the time, all some of the time, never all all of the time.

Those who are hammering the service certainly aren't profitable. Where do you draw the line? Every company has the right to be able to charge and provision their services at a level which is profitable, and at the same time keeps as many customers as happy possible - which is exactly what in my opinion this achieves.