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Originally Posted by ian@huth
How else can an ISP advertise a broadband service other than as an upto figure? There are a lot of factors that can prevent a customer from getting the maximum speed that their connection is sold as and many of these factors are completely outwith the control of the ISP.
On the telephone side It may be that NTL are bringing in new call plans in the new year but that may be too late. I have been getting a retention deal for my telephone service for the past few months but that has now come to an end. It will take an even better deal to persuade me to stay with NTL for the telephone when I call them in the next day or two. There is nothing at all wrong with the NTL telephone service itself, it is purely a matter of cost.
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Until the day that the technology is available whereby if you achieve 10mb connection for example then you are charged for that, a kind of sliding scale for example on average.
If it is £30 for 10mb per month, this equates to £3 per mb?
You are charged for the average speed you achieve over that month, why can this not be possible?
Going back to my argument, if I dont get a full pound why should I pay for a full pound?
But hang on, far much easier just to say, you get upto 10mb, even if you dont achieve that speed tough ****sky ( as the russians say )
Your point about the telephone service is right, there is not a lot that can go wrong regardless who the provider, it is the cost that it boils down to, and sadly the cs when things with NTL do go wrong.