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Originally Posted by DieDieMyDarling
The cap itself ALLOWS for 200GB a month, including off peak downloading. So clearly Nildrim DO think it's viable. Not everyone who leaves NTL will go to nildrim, in fact, i doubt if even half of them COULD get nildrim, i can't here in Northern Ireland.
And as more people sign up to Nildrim, i'm sure they'll use the money wisely to upgrade the networks etc, so that they can make even more money. Unless they learned business strategy from NTL. 
Telewest have done it, they did the work first, and will make more money in the long run, because of it. They also don't have the constant problems NTL have (email, newsgroups etc) with faster speeds AND an uncapped service. It's just a shame that when the two companies merge, ntl will be in charge.  |
It doesn't mean that Nildram think it's viable at all. They have recognised that something has to be done about customers usage. They may think that any more stringent capping at this time could affect their competitive position in the market. They have taken the first step of a walk, there will be others. Don't forget that Nildram have only 40,000 customers.
NTL have been getting a lot of stick because they announced the speed increases around three to four months before they are due to appear. Some are saying that they should have waited until they were ready to implement the increases before announcing them.
The same people are saying that NTLs 3 Mb top tier is far too low at the side of ADSLs 8Mb offerings. They forget that in the most part the 8 Mb ADSL services are only in the trial stage with BT and it will be Autumn
before they will be available to other customers, that is if the trials are successful.