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Originally Posted by Plusnet
Very few ISPs offer an uncontended (1:1 contention) and therefore unlimited product. Where these products are available, they are priced in excess of £300 a month. This reflects the costs associated with a customer utilising a high level of data transfer.
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http://www.plus.net/support/faq/broa...ge_faq.shtml#1
All ISPs know the cost of having high usage customers and know they cannot sustain having those customers for an indefinate period of time. The question is how long before profitability is a more important factor than retaining such customers.
More and more ISPs are taking action to persuade the very high users to move on to another ISP. The more that do this, the smaller the number of ISPs without any restriction for them to move to and the sooner the ones left will also take action.
Nildram has recently changed it usage policy to clamp down on the very high users but look how many residential broadband customers they have, just 40,000. Now if all the NTL customers jump ship as some members on here are suggesting they will and move to Nildram, what do you think will happen? If they are having to take action against high usage customers and they only have a total of 40,000 customers then I would suggest that doubling that number with all those ex NTL customers will result in their new ship sinking, and sinking fast.