Ignition I agree 40% is silly.
This is due to the fact they released 10mbit upload on 18mbit channels tho. When in reality they should have used minimal 36mbit QAM64 channels or 2 bonded 18mbit channels for 36mbit.. That would then allow utilisation to hit the 80% figure and still support a top tier customer starting an upload without causing noticeable congestion.
40% of 18mbit is about 8mbit, which gives the 10mbit free for a user to max out their upload, one out of 200 users uploading at any given time is hardly a remote possibility.
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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
Same as it does now - costs are based on what they can get away with rather than the income they receive or what they cost to produce.
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indeed.
couple of ladies were on dragons den last week with their wedding filming service.
They were asked why they charge what they do.
The story was they started at about £250 and ended up at £850 with gradual price increases, initially they were making a loss so had to increase, however it turned out their current price is way above their costs at around £500 and was decided on based thats how far they could push without losing sales.
Barring the uk adsl market which is somewhat weird most business charge what they can get away with and can often bear no relation to costs.
There is a new contract drawn up between the US media sector and various governments, some are apparently signing it soon, the EU not yet. This contract will mean new laws which violate various privacy rights and mean a much more restricted internet for the sake of the 'minor' issue of reducing copyright infringement. That sounds bad? Here comes the more scary part. It will make it law for them to count every infringement as a lost sale without any supporting evidence other than the infringement and they can also value the lost sale at something different to what the product is sold for, eg. a mp3 might be on itunes for 99pence but they can value it at £10. This is clearly going to be a new revenue stream for them and probably has very little to do with lost sales but rather simply a new way for them to make money. Oh and of course it wont have any affect on prices of legal content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement