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Originally Posted by Neil
<Devil's Advocate>With respect Ian  What you have not mentioned there, is the fact that most people are paying enough for the service level that they signed up for originally (prior to ntl moving the goalposts silently on a Friday night regarding the "cap") </Devil's Advocate> |
No customer has ever signed up for the 3Mb and other new speed tiers that are to be introduced. Whether customers are paying enough is something we will never know. We know the price that the new tiers are coming in at but we don't know how profitable these are for NTL. Whilst it is easy to say that some ADSL ISPs provide faster, uncapped or cheaper services, we don't know whether these are profitable for them or whether they are just buying customers at this point in time. Many of the arguments that anti cap customers have are based on the assumption that if another ISP can do something then NTL should be able to do so too. Taking this to the extreme, if Wanadoo decided to buy customers by giving a 2Mb uncapped service for £1 per month, would you think that NTL would be wise to follow suit?