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Originally Posted by TheDon
If they did that then surely they should also increase the cost to people in those areas? Or should the rest of the network subsidise the cost of giving students far better contention levels than the rest of the user base?
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it would be subsidy, isps have mostly worked in that manner anyway, the exceptions will be PAYG isp's.
I can give 3 scenarios.
1 - most of network ok no oversubscription to 98-99%, 1-2% over subscribed where performance affected, what do you do? In this case it could be considered an abnormality but 1-2% should be easy to subsidise unless profit is extremely marginal.
2 - majority of network ok, but oversubscription more than an abnormality perhaps something like 80% ok 20% over subscribed, so hard to subsidise but also means cant really call it unsually high usage as 20% is too much for that, simply means the isp got it figures wrong and needs to respec its packages, eg. higher price, lower usage limits, lower speed limit. This I think is VM's situation.
3 - most of network over subscribed, pure and simple abusive overselling, VM are not in this situation tho although some isp's like O2's ipstream are.