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Originally Posted by die5el
They all ready pay to surf the net they dont need to change thier surfin habits at all.Its not the customers fault VM have totally oversold on thier network and the only way to keep things under control is to penalise people using it. There should be no stm on any of the tiers customers should be able to surf the net any time they want with out being hit with the stm vm like taking your money but dont dont like you using the product how would they feel if everyone said we will only pay you upto a certain amount because we only getting a upto certain speeds because the stm has kicked in.They brag about it being mother of all broadbands but what they dont tell you is you can only use it in the middle of the night when most people are sleeping ready for work the next morning. VM said the stm would only affect about 5% of users (lol) vm would stm everyone 23 hrs a day if they could and still charge top price.If they introduce anymore stm hours i wil say cya vm take your broadband and phone and shove it where the sun dont shine
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I know where yor coming from but i wouldnt say they have over sold the network,, Maybe they have in some area's, But the main factor here is to upgrade the network as best as possible imo. I agree there shouldnt be no stm, but if that were the case, everyone would jump on then band wagon and cripple the network more so than now.
Increase the price i say but then have no stm, but with a higher upload.
As you and many we would probably like to know who this 5% of people are, or where virgin get thier stat's from, probably fresh air, as even a family of say 3- 5 would hit thier stm pretty easy considering how many devices use the net today from home.
Virgin have to start realising that there are more and more failmys / people / students, using the net for all sorts of things now, i.e HDTV, bluray downlaods, bbc Iplayer, flciker,twitter, etc etc, upload is becoming more and more popular now a days, So in a way, STM does play a vital part, but in other ways it annoys the hell out of people.
Virgin need to stop having these crap trial areas with new STM times and start trials where there is no stm and no monthly usage cap and then see how that part of the network copes.
Personally i think virgin need to increase their prices, but with current network state they have no choice but to give better prices than most.
all good for competition thoe
