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Originally Posted by General Maximus
The top tier gets screwed every time. The last 2 times it has been in regard to the % increase on the downstream compared to the lower tiers and this time it is now increase in upstream. It baffles me how somebody can sit there and justify this kind of behaviour/logic.
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Easy. People who measure their manhood by their broadband's bandwidth will keep paying more for the top tier, and in many cases use it heavily. Delivering 200Mb costs no more to VM than 150Mb, but usage varies a lot between tiers and that's the rub and where the costs are. People who hammer download and/or upload are expensive, and many of them are on the top tier.
Upgrades are done largely for PR reasons in the UK as Openreach are nowhere to be found as yet. There's little business case in upgrading more than they have to.
EDIT: I note a fair few people who do not care about the e-peen have decided 150 is a better choice for their usage. To me the best way if upset by the upgrade would be to either leave VM entirely, although showing upset about being uplifted from 152Mb to 200Mb by going to 76Mb or less would be a little strange, or as is perhaps more practical for most downgrade.