This is in reply to a post in another thread, as all posts to do wtih capping are supposed to go in here:
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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber
It does kind of show people would be willing to pay the extra needed for an uncapped service. I used to pay a fortune on my modem, but I've tried to block that from memory  |
I would very very much disagree, people as a whole are now very used to low bills for their internet and various surveys have shown that the vast majority of people aren't interested in how fast but how cheap their internet is.
Also the same people who want the uncapped services tend to be the same who download lots - check out Supanet, Bulldog, various Telefonica resellers on ADSLGuide, issues presently with Supanet and Telefonica resellers, BD have had nightmares in the past.
Cheap bandwidth attracts heavy usage which causes problems due to abnormally high expenditure being required to support services.
Times have changed, there's a big difference between wanting any sort of internet service and an uncapped one.
Of course if people are really interested in uncapped services I imagine a few hundred quid a month would cover as much as you wish.
Or of course just go to DSL and find a provider that will let you download as much as you like. Just don't complain when they go the way of
Plusnet or
Supanet and end up traffic shaping you because they can't make enough money to support your usage in their business model.
Or there's the
Bulldog option of just letting the network go into meltdown of course.