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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber
But surely this is only the start? If bandwidth costs are sky rocketing by this time next year we'll all be sitting on 1gbit connections with a 20mb a month usage limit. People are making out anyone downloading 31gb a month is the spawn of satan, the real issue is NTL's infrastructre. The more customers they attract with these news high speed deals, the less everyone else will be allowed to download.
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Bandwidth costs are not skyrocketing at all. Usage allowances, caps, or whatever you want to call them are there to enable most users to enjoy a satisfactory internet experience for most of their time online. The mechanics of it are that each user is sharing a UBR card with many other users. There is a fixed, finite amount of bandwidth available on thet UBR card that all these users have to share. It only takes a relatively low number of users who try to max their downloads and uploads 24/7 to create problems for all other users on that card. It is no good saying that users can have unlimited bandwidth for a slightly higher price because the maths still stay the same. To provide extra infrastructure to cater for everyone having an unlimited service with little deterioration to their service would increase the price of the service quite substantially and then the ones complaining that the cap was too low would be saying that the price was too high.
It's quite simple really. NTL are offering a service at a fixed price for you to use within the guidelines that they set. For me and the majority of NTL customers they are offering a damn good deal that nobody else is matching. If the deal doesn't suit your requirements then shop around for one that does. I would advise waiting to see how this develops as we do not know what will happen when you have used up your allowance. Wait and see.