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- ntl start beating non abusers with the cap
- ntl start generally enforcing the cap
- Other ISPs follow suit
- We end up with a pay per byte model across the UK
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i cant see these retro active steps being good, or long lasting. look at how internet provisions have progressed since BBS in the UK. I remember when freeserve and those isps started with the FREE 0845 services, that was a WOW! for me, after 2 years of paying demon £40 a month for the priviledge of paying 0845 rates... it was now free! then the surgence of broadband, suddenly paying for bandwidth seems stupid.
True they'll milk more money out of us, and with a cap they'll end up losing customers, but hey... 12 months after all these ISPs do that, some entrepreneur will start a free dsl pay-as-you-go, then a limitless dsl for prices we see dialup going for now.
The biggest cost to ISPs in this country right now, is paying off for the installation of all the fibre optics (cableco's) and DSL enabling exchanges (BT+co). at the end of the day, once they recoup those costs, after 12 months of the exchange being up, BT make there cash back on a minimum of 400 users to activate the exchange. Bandwidth is pretty much cheap as chips these days, and when you consider that dialup servers need literally 1000's of modems connected in order to interact with you, and cable/dsl needs 1 per 100mbit of traffic... that cant be an issue.
To the point, Cap = Bad ;-) with more and more exchanges being DSL enabled, and if they kick you off, they're essentially terminating your contract, vis-a-vis you dont have to pay them any longer and are free to go trouble DSL exchanges at 6mbit/s with no cap. The day i get kicked off is the day i admit i won, i get to give £25 a month to a company who will let me hookup my xbox for no extra charge, and i can run NAT
