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Originally Posted by ianathuth
There may be plenty of ISPs around that do neither AT THE MOMENT, but....
With more ISPs capping or in other ways restricting downloads there is a reducing number of these around. So all the very heavy users move over to the remaining ISPs that have no restrictions and what do you get?
Think about something for a moment. How many 1Mb users can be put on a 155Mb pipe with a guarantee of no problems for any of them? Now multiply that number of users by the contention ratio to find out how many may share that pipe. Lastly, work out what each of these contended users will get if all of them try downloading at once. Anyone who has bothered to work this out will see that the more heavy users an ISP has, the more impossible it is to provide unrestricted broadband at the level some users are asking for.
There is an interesting article on BT wholesale pricing that illustrates the situation on ADSL. Have a read. http://www.crn.vnunet.com/news/1158135 |
Speculation does not equal fact.
When/if the time comes where all ISPs go metered people will have to deal with that as it happens. Do you honestly believe any new tarifs recently created, with major publicity campaigns, being sold with 500gb/unmetered usage plans (using UKO as an example again) are going to lower caps to anywhere near NTL's within the next 12 months?
Also, some ISPs upgrade to meet demand. They also have business plans that they strongly believe will make them profit. UKO is not some fly-by-night set up to cash-in on the broadband boom, they have been arround for years, and likely to be here for a good few more.