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Originally Posted by ian@huth
I just used 95% as an example, it could just as easy be 99.5% as I don't work for NTL and don't know the figures. There is no logical reasoning that would suggest that heavy users are early adaptors or long standing customers. I would think it more likely that heavy users are quite new customers who haven't got tired of trying to download the entire internet yet.
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I`m an early adopter of new tech. A large number of my friends are early adopters of new tech. I can assure you that the people I know who came to the internet later are the lower users of bandwidth. I've been using it for 13 years now and my consumption of internet resources is simply expanding as I'm able to get more and more from the net.
Give me 56k dialup and I'll download less because the speed restrictions are too painful to wait out. As bandwidth increases so will consumption. People go for the fastest tier not because they want to save time but because they want to do more. Increasing bandwidth but then imposing caps is simply short-sighted as it doesn`t take into account why people want more bandwidth.