For the people here who aren't being 'shaped' at the moment well good for you but let me say this, i'm sure you'll have something to say when they impose it in your area because its fecked up. Seems like once again NTL have screwed up, just try running any p2p software (bittorrent etc), and you'll see your whole service crumble to a snails pace.
Personaly I'd rather see caps reintroduced than this, the 75gig limit on the 10meg line was more than enough for me and most users I imagine, and I consider myself a moderate user. I would download maybe 40gig on a heavy month but at least I could do this at the full speed using all the bandwidth I pay for.
Did manage to speak to an english CS who confirmed traffic shaping was happening and had been for two months since it was first trialed in Cardiff, Its now being rolled out accross the network.
Btw he did confirm to me this is only for customers on 10meg.
How on earth do they think a 20meg service is going to work, when they can't give people what they pay for now.