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But does that not worry people? I've used the net for years and have payed serious sums for my usage. I don't want to return to that. Do you?
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I too have paid very serious sums for my usage over the years. Nobody is suggesting that these days will return. What we have been used to in the last few years though is ISPs offering very cheap and quite often below cost internet connections in order to win market share. When broadband was first launched it was quite easy to offer unlimited services as there were not enough users to make an impact on usage. Reality must come into the market at some stage.
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Originally Posted by DVS
But will they? or will they simply bolster their profits?
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These are marketing decisions at the end of the day.
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But broadband is not making a loss know so these changes aren't to return to a profitable operation but simply suck more profit out of an already profitable solution.
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How do you know that broadband is not making a loss? Do you know how much ISPs in general and NTL in particular are spending on the network at the moment? If you look at the poll at the top of this thread you can work out the gain or loss in revenue that NTL will achieve if this sample is representative of the customer base as a whole. Without doing any sums you can see at a glance that it would lose revenue.