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Ignitionnet · 15-08-2008, 10:49

If VM have a problem with people who consume extreme amounts of bandwidth even with STM they can always show them the door. I'm sure they know who said people are. It's VM's choice. If they choose to punish the many through STM in order to account for the actions of a few so that they can continue to advertise unlimited downloads that is their choice.

No customer or group of customers that is alledgedly so small is making VM do anything. Telewest have been operating STM for 3 years just previously on a very targetted group of heavy users, it was with the ntl:Telewest merger and the 20Mbit upgrade that STM became widely used because the capacity was not there to support it without the system in place.

You cannot blame a small subset of customers for the actions of a multi-billion pound company. VM chose the STM solution to the issue and continue to choose it rather than dealing with extreme users individually.

Kymmy - Be both don't care and don't monitor bandwidth usage at this time. I know of people doing 4 figures GB a month because they can and they are left alone. Be probably had a far higher average bandwidth usage per customer than VM and its' only with going mass market through O2 that it's coming down.

15-08-2008, 10:49	#55
Ignitionnet Inactive Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Age: 47 Posts: 13,995	Re: Viginmedia Are Broadband Scammers If VM have a problem with people who consume extreme amounts of bandwidth even with STM they can always show them the door. I'm sure they know who said people are. It's VM's choice. If they choose to punish the many through STM in order to account for the actions of a few so that they can continue to advertise unlimited downloads that is their choice. No customer or group of customers that is alledgedly so small is making VM do anything. Telewest have been operating STM for 3 years just previously on a very targetted group of heavy users, it was with the ntl:Telewest merger and the 20Mbit upgrade that STM became widely used because the capacity was not there to support it without the system in place. You cannot blame a small subset of customers for the actions of a multi-billion pound company. VM chose the STM solution to the issue and continue to choose it rather than dealing with extreme users individually. Kymmy - Be both don't care and don't monitor bandwidth usage at this time. I know of people doing 4 figures GB a month because they can and they are left alone. Be probably had a far higher average bandwidth usage per customer than VM and its' only with going mass market through O2 that it's coming down.