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Old 07-11-2004, 20:54   #455
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Re: [Now Official] More ntl speed changes

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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber
NTL claim to have 1m broadband customers, and also that 5% of them use too much bandwidth. Let's say those 5% left NTL and went to another unlimited ISP. That's 50,000 lost customers. These people won't change their downloading habits. Let's say all these people are spending at least £50 a month for their broadband and TV and they take their custom elsewhere, that is a loss of £30m a year. Is NTL really losing more than that in bandwidth costs?
Just to point out, what is being spent on other services isn't pure profit, assuming this is the case it'd be measured against how much profit is being made on the services, not on how much is being taken in total.
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