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Originally Posted by Paul M

No, it would be the right choice.
Erm, do you want to run that one by me again - how exactly does getting rid of customers that are costing you money, decrease your profits ?

No, it's not ntl's fault at all - it's the fault of bandwidth hoggers. That's a bit like blaming the car for having a poor mpg rate when you run out of petrol - when it's really the drivers fault for not filling up, and using it excessivly.

So what would you do, your solution would be to get rid of 5% of your highest paying customers each time? Great business practice LOL

Then in 6 months time when they "have to" double the speed again it won't be the "10GB a day" gang at fault it will be a new "10GB a month gang", and 6 months after that when the "have to" double again it will be the the "5Gb a month" gang. Its the classic divide and conquer approach, blame a minority for the problem, then they don't have to spend any money.

I'm sure if we all lived in that nice fluffy fantasy land where network equipment is free then ntl would jump at the chance to upgrade all their network for the speeds you mention. Sadly, here in the real world, equipment costs money (lots of it), and ntl are not going to spend huge amounts on their network to cater for a few heavy users who are never going to make them any profit.

Well their competitors are spending the money, and they are upgrading their networks. So its NTL that are living in a nice fluffy fantasy land if they think they can keep doubling the speed of their customer connections and not do the work or reinvest the profits.

I would love to be there in 6 months time when your using your nice 6mb NTL connection, you go to download something and find you can do it faster through a 56kb modem. You know why? because a couple of other users are doing the same thing at the same time, and NTL forgot to invest in new equipment, they decided it would be better to blame the userbase 6 months earlier.

People are not necessarily going to use more & more. Having a faster connection does not mean people automatically download more - they download the same as before, only faster.

So you use the same bandwidth now as you did when you had a 56kb dialup connection? Get real, the faster it gets the more people use.


I have a really great Idea!

Maybe we should get NTL to run public transport, we could start by banning all fat people from buses, they use up more bus space, we could then get more people on the bus.

Then in 6 months time we could then ban all people over 5 foot, I'm sure we could get more people in if we banned tall people.

Then we could ban the disabled too, they take up more space, and the elderly, they take their time getting on the bus, ban them too.

We could ram everyone on our one bus to maximize our profits.

Then we would have this really really amazing bus service, we all know the problems with the bus service are due to the passengers, everybody knows that, its common knowledge.


Pete