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broadbandking · 11-02-2009, 18:36

The way Virgin get away with this as they have the cable monopoly, as the way cable is designed is for very high speeds at the moment as the ADSL connections are lot more limited.
So Virgi see it as you are gonna get a low speed from a ADSL provider so if you want a higher speed you have to use Virgin and they can throttle it and people will continue to use them because 1. they dont know about STM 2. they rarely use the internet to hit the limits 3. the ADSL speed is sooooo crap they might aswell stick with VM.

Virgin Know all the above point which allows them to do this and get away with it.

There is no way in hell this is to help customers it is just to save Virgin Media money, I could deal with STM if they had set limits that was enough for todays demand i/e between 4-9pm for 20Mb users should have a limit of 8Gb, which isnt alot these days and the stm should only be between 4-9pm, I must admit I would rather no STM but if I had to the above example I could live with.

The main fact is Virgin wil keep doing this as long as the other companies pose no threat, which at the moment they don't.

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broadbandking cf.mega poster Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: At My Desk Services: Virgin Media V6 XL TV - 1Gb Broadband Posts: 3,009	Re: New STM could be coming your way The way Virgin get away with this as they have the cable monopoly, as the way cable is designed is for very high speeds at the moment as the ADSL connections are lot more limited. So Virgi see it as you are gonna get a low speed from a ADSL provider so if you want a higher speed you have to use Virgin and they can throttle it and people will continue to use them because 1. they dont know about STM 2. they rarely use the internet to hit the limits 3. the ADSL speed is sooooo crap they might aswell stick with VM. Virgin Know all the above point which allows them to do this and get away with it. There is no way in hell this is to help customers it is just to save Virgin Media money, I could deal with STM if they had set limits that was enough for todays demand i/e between 4-9pm for 20Mb users should have a limit of 8Gb, which isnt alot these days and the stm should only be between 4-9pm, I must admit I would rather no STM but if I had to the above example I could live with. The main fact is Virgin wil keep doing this as long as the other companies pose no threat, which at the moment they don't.