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Originally Posted by domo247
It sounds like VM are having a disaster.
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All companies expect a bit of moaning when they do stuff like this. The only thing that will be a disaster is if profitability is affected or branding is 'hurt'. And thanks to contract lock-in, it's early days yet.
However my guesstimate is most normal people go for 10mb or 20mb.
People that get 50mb now (and 100mb in future) either
1) dont really need or use the extra speed, but have lots of disposable income and just like to have "the best"
2) Really do want to "download 15GB HD movies in one hour" as the product is advertised.
All people in group 1 will be unaffected.
As for people in group 2, I don't know what they will do. I'm going to wait a month to see the full impact, maybe Virgin will relax the throttling?
I'm guessing they are not even doing prioritisation, they are just capping all p2p bandwidth, even if the rest of the network has spare capacity.
Virgin might not even care in the short term, if peering and infrastructure savings are greater than the amount lost by people avoiding the product (defecting or downgrading etc), then they will be happy.
They really should change the way they market the product though, as right now there are not many (any?) legitimate unthrottled download services available in the UK where you can get 15GB HD movies at full-speed (not streaming).