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Originally Posted by Chloé Palmas

Even if it in Gig (Q unit), Hyperoptic do have it as a part of their T&C that you can't use so much that it is to the determent of other users:

Is that standard procedure / for every provider?

From what I can make of it, it seems to be shared per block of properties with Hyperoptic and if one uses too much it may effect the speed / throttle it for someone else...kind of like a shared plan. Is that correct?

It can be fairly technical. I don't know how Hyperoptic do their fibre - like how many cores and whether or not they use WDM to allow multiple channels per core.

Then there is the equipment that drives the fibres. Home equipment is constrained to 1 Gbps but the aggregating equipment can drive at 10 or 100 Gbps. That all comes down to cost/investment.

So the effects of contention can be kicked down the road if the investment is there, but as take up rises, contention effects creep in.

For Virgin Media, they are investing in infrastructure so that they can meet the upcoming 50% rules for headline speeds. So there's built-in legal contention already in place.

It's quite technically complex - and Telford is back!