[Chrysalis]

a few points I wish to make.

Although personally for me I like this deal, the 24.99 is looking very sweet now, I think user's at the top end of the scale have a raw deal. We all know 900 gig a month is unacceptable but I think the cap should be more in proportion with the speed offered, I would think for the top tier 50-80 gig cap would be more suitable, and NTL might think about offering unmetered for £10 on top of any package.

Few will know that a company strength is usually by total turnover rather then profit, when BT got themselves in trouble they powered themselves out if it simply because their turnover is so huge, so profitable or not NTL will want to keep all of their customers. Also I believe broadband is the most profitable part of NTL's business and to stay strong in this area they should strive to satisy both ends of the scale, word of mouth is very effective.

Also have to agree on webpage loading points made, for user's who have bursty type usage (web browsing and email), once you hit 1mbit+ their is little difference, sure large pages with flash on will load faster but things like this forum will be like 0.2 secs faster, anyone who says they are getting 3mbit just for their browsing experience either has too much money to spare or is I am sorry to say dumb. Bearing this is mind 3mbit should be packaged up for file downloading, which is why I think a larger traffic cap is more appropriate.

We can talk about whats right and wrong, but which is worse?

1 - NTL and other isp's playing people for fool's who have little knowledge of the internet and letting them pay for a full broadband package just to get email and do a few hours of web browsing at the weekend.

2 - Customers downloading DVD's, games, linux operating systems etc.

End of the day its give and take, both the ISP and customers will grab what they can out of it and usually it balances out and both are happy, when one goes too far then the other becomes upset which is whats happening here. I think NTL have got it right with the first 2 packages but wrong with the top tier.