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swapshop1 · 13-12-2006, 12:52

I emailed NTL with regards to allowing the DVDR news groups on their servers. I was given an email address to respond appropriately but the address returns my mail. As NTL read this, then I'll tell you what I want.
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Giganews and companies make money by supplying full newsgroup hosting. Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£15 a month or so (actual figure is unimportant). If Ntl supplied their own premium service, I bet they could do it cheaper/make more profit. My reasoning is that data traffic will occur if I use an external company anyway and Ntl are footing the traffic bill!!!!

By Ntl hosting it on their own networks then internal data traffic costs are substantially reduced, and hence capable of generating higher revenue.

Giganews must pay for the traffic downloaded from their networks hence their costs. Ntl must have (i hope) a bigger network and economies of scale would dictate cheaper p/Mb of data. - Also remember with Giganews ntl will still be carrying that data as I down load from Giga!

What a good idea to make more money - charge a premium for extra newsgroups.

ps don't post replies about leaching or bad mouthing for copy right infrigement - its the IT era, data exchange, it's already happening, these services are out there, I just believe Ntl should capitalise instead of hosting the data backbone for another companies profits.

13-12-2006, 12:52	#1
swapshop1 Inactive Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Lincoln Posts: 89	NTL Newsgroups I emailed NTL with regards to allowing the DVDR news groups on their servers. I was given an email address to respond appropriately but the address returns my mail. As NTL read this, then I'll tell you what I want. . Giganews and companies make money by supplying full newsgroup hosting. Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£15 a month or so (actual figure is unimportant). If Ntl supplied their own premium service, I bet they could do it cheaper/make more profit. My reasoning is that data traffic will occur if I use an external company anyway and Ntl are footing the traffic bill!!!! By Ntl hosting it on their own networks then internal data traffic costs are substantially reduced, and hence capable of generating higher revenue. Giganews must pay for the traffic downloaded from their networks hence their costs. Ntl must have (i hope) a bigger network and economies of scale would dictate cheaper p/Mb of data. - Also remember with Giganews ntl will still be carrying that data as I down load from Giga! What a good idea to make more money - charge a premium for extra newsgroups. ps don't post replies about leaching or bad mouthing for copy right infrigement - its the IT era, data exchange, it's already happening, these services are out there, I just believe Ntl should capitalise instead of hosting the data backbone for another companies profits.