[ian@huth]

So it will be a soft cap in the first place with restrictions to follow later in the year. The options are open for them to have several different possibilities on reaching the cap. There could be a reduction to a lower speed or extra bandwidth available at a cost. Perhaps that is what they mean by metered broadband later in the year that was in the media presentation. One thing that is worrying for higher usage customers is that the usage allowance is 1 Gb per day for both 2Mb and 3Mb customers. This is a lowering of the suggested cap for 3Mb users. Additionally 1Gb per day is nothing like as good as 30Gb per month if it ever becomes strictly enforced. We will have to wait until hard cappins announced before we really know what is going to happen. A lot may depend on how customers use the increased speeds whilst the cap is still soft.