A few years ago I, along with a few others, were paying £50 for a 1m connection with NTL. Then came the price reduction down to £35, great a £15 'saving'.
I have said all along that I will pay for whatever speed I need be it capped or uncapped (if given a choice).
Given the immenent release of a couple more BW hungry offering from NTL and the new teirs offering, perhaps it is time (yet again <sigh>) that NTL top dogs get a few emails pointing them at the various 'cap' discussions here and elsewhere (if such other places exist
) and they take note of what the 'tech savvy' users would like. After all it is the membership of this forum, that, by helping the non techy, enable those people to become more aware of the more advanced nature of BB and what eventually is possible and indirectly point those users towards a higher costing teir.
Without the input from these forums (if they listen) then NTL would have us all on the 300 teir and just downloading emails with a bit of browsing thrown in. An ideal situation for NTL bandwidth, but a very stagnant and dying customer base as those that become more 'techy' will want 'better' offerings.
NTL are here to make a profit (get out of debt) and any company must continue to offer what its customers require at a price that is dictated by what the customer sees as a 'fair price'. We have all seen over the past couple of years various ISP's being 'bought out' or dissapearing from either being 'overpriced' or by not being 'not cost effective'.
The answers is quite simple, for those wanting an 'uncapped' service simply revert back to the pre-price reduction prices of a couple of years ago, unfortunatley the only one I can remember is the teir I was on, £50 for 1Meg. I personally have no qualms or argument with NTL charging me this price for an uncapped service, this was the amount budgeted for my 'internet access' and considering that I will (if this is adopted) be getting a 200% download speed increase for no extra cost, if NTL choose to increase my upload speed then fine something else to weigh as a plus point.
At the end of the day if I don't like what NTL are offering then I will simply 'vote with my wallet' and find a supplier who has what I require speedwise or service wise, and not waste my time forever whingeing on about what 'alternative suppliers' are offering. I'll just go and 'buy' from them
If I want it, whatever
'it' may be I'll go out and get it, simple as that.
If what I want is
not available to me by reason of my locality then it's
my tough luck, I'll simply have to keep on looking till I find
it in my area.
If I can't afford
it then that is
my problem, not the suppliers. Its my money and it is up to me to decide how its spent/budgeted.
The 'if's' argument could go on forever as could the answers but what is the point, this forum has been there many times before and if their were T shirts given out for all the 'cap' related threads in this current and previous incarnations of the board then most of the membership would be wearing them, or using them for dusters
.
At the end of the day it is a 'wait and see' situation, if I'm not happy with whats offered then I'll be off, no whinging or moaning, just gone to an alternative supplier. Simple as that.