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Old 10-02-2011, 12:30   #102
BenMcr
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Re: Upstream Traffic Management Trial 1st of February

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
As long as the average consumer continues to accept shaping and throttling and slowness as "that's just the way it is" companies will continue to get away with providing it.
*sigh*

What the average consumer will accept is the reason we are in the position we are in

The consumer wanted cheaper prices, so market forces gave them cheaper prices.

The consumers wanted faster speeds, so market forces gave them faster speeds

You cannot do both of these at the same time without something else giving way

And before you say 'well Virgin didn't have to follow', yes they did, or they would have gone bust. You cannot be a niche broadband provider with a network that cost billions to build - you have to target the mainstream market
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