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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
you have included line rental's and other factors into this?
infinity is barely available in 1/3rd of cabled areas at present and will only be available to just over half when their planned rollout is done.
I repeat my previous point, boosting 20mbit to 30mbit is pointless. if a customer is going to move because infinity is faster they will still move as 40 beats 30 just as 40 beats 20.
I am more inclined to think this has these 2 purposes.
1 - to tie people in to new contracts for upgrading.
2 - a way to get people to use the new superhub which will then make it easier to get them to upgrade to higher tiers in future.
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It's partly those two points, its also to compete against an increasingly competitive landscape as more and more areas become ADSL2+ and Annex-M enabled and more providers offer these services via LLU or WBC.
Obviously you would need to practically on top of an exchange to achieve 24mb d/s and 2.5mb u/s but believe it or not some people will still go to ADSL even when they live in a cabled area. This coupled with the increasing rollout of Infinity will be some of the factors as to why it's occuring.