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Originally Posted by dave6x
Interestingly back in 2005 NTL were proposing to do just that, introducing 10Mb as standard with different tiers of usage packages being made available. Of course it never did happen, far too sensible an idea!!!!
See CF news item on the proposal here:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/...ed-as-standard |
PAYG is a very backwards idea.
The 2 major downsides are.
light user's bring in less revenue to an isp, heavy user's pay silly money, some may say thats a good thing but wait until the day you want to download or you get the bill for your kids usage (which you didnt realise existed).
I support fixed usage limits with overage fees but not pure PAYG. Any system needs to have a subsidy system in place where people who barely use their connection pay decent amounts so there is profit to spend on investment and cover heavier users.
ADSL has almost gone to that method where by isp's all concentrate on one for all speed with the variables been usage limits and I think the adsl market is a mess as a result with very low quality services.
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Ironically I am surprised by this, the way the bbc have cut down the quality of F1 streaming made me think they were struggling for bandwidth yet they rollout a hd iplayer service. Watching F1 practice sessions recently is like watching a 240p youtube video.