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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber
To me that's the reason they are introducing caps. If they cap the service before these services take off NTL can charge what they like once they start running their own services. People will be none the wiser that these kind of services previously existed freely and will just assume they'd have to pay NTL to use them.
We're coming to a point where the internet is being governed by the ISPs profits. It is in no way of any benefit for the customer.
What I don't get it why people, who claim to go nowhere near the limit, are so pro-cap. Surely it won't affect them one way or the other? Overloaded areas will still be overloaded, and other areas will still have plenty of bandwidth to go round. If you live in a bad area now, just wait till people are downloading at 3mbit.
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Right, I don't go anywhere near the cap and I have no problems with my connection. If you accept the fact that 5% of customers use over 60% of bandwidth, as verified by members here that have the black and white stats in front of them, then that 5% is costing NTL more than the revenue they receive from them. This is not just in pure transit costs but also in providing infrastructure to minimise the effect of those heavy users on other customers. Capping the heavy users can reduce or eliminate this drain on profits and make more cash available to improve the network for everyone.