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Originally Posted by Horizon
...as I've said VM are clearly merging the 50mb/100mb tiers together. Or more accurately the platinum 100 tier is being put on ice. As I said, those who have the dosh for 100mb will not want to remain on 120mb and accept a price reduction because they will be the same as the people on the 50mb tier who will be getting a upgrade to 100mb. The minute 200mb+ is out, they'll upgrade to it.
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It's still slightly confusing because Virgin Media probably want to offer 120Mbit ASAP so they can still lay claim to being the fastest consumer broadband service provider in the UK (10Mbit faster than OpenReach's 110Mbit FTTP). So the platinum tier (currently 100Mbit, but soon to be 120Mbit) cannot really be iced
unless everyone on 50Mbit, 100Mbit or 120Mbit pays exactly the same and is put on the fastest possible speed for their UBR. If this doesn't occur we'll see people either paying less or the same but getting substantially different speeds. Who'd want to be paying for, and getting, the current 100Mbit when some former 50Mbit users are getting the same speed for less (because of being doubled) and some former 100Mbit customers are paying the same but getting 120Mbit?
I can only envisage current 100Mbit users having the price reduced to that of 50Mbit and all those who are currently on 50Mbit but can get 100Mbit now are automatically upgraded, with the rest being upgraded when 100Mbit is available from their UBR. This tariff would be the new XXL. This would be followed by the introduction of a replacement top tier tariff called 120Mbit. Anyone who wanted to upgrade to 120Mbit would pay extra when the product was made available from their UBR.