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Originally Posted by DVS
Here here.. Someone else who realises what this 'cap' is all about. Milking a few more pounds out of the service. Who will see the benefits - Shareholders and the boses who will get yet another bumper bonus.
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Milking a few more pounds out of a commercial product. Yes, isn't that disgraceful in a free market economy, especially for a company that makes no profit at the moment.
People criticise ntl for not marketing their products in such a way that they could actually make some money and thus invest in the network, then when they try they are criticised for that too. DAMNED IF THEY DO, DAMNED IF THEY DON'T.
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Originally Posted by Rone
While this thread has provided some great heated debate, some statistics, and a fair bit of resentment, i think it's pretty worn out. 
There's those in favour of a cap [each to their own] those who think its totally wrong, [cant say i disagree] and a very few who think a caps not totally unreasonable, just that the size of this ones pathetic [and your right as well].
There's no point closing it, its bound to re-emerge, its a shame none of this gets read by the people at ntl that actually put things like this into force.
And even if it was, how many firms have the courage to say "we got this one wrong"? I bet you can count them on the finger of one finger.  |
I'm NOT in favour of caps. But, as happened with unmetered dialup services, the morons who max out their connections 'just because they can' have spoiled it for the rest of us.
The reason other European countries are less tightly capped than the UK is because they don't have as many people who act like morons.
In Germany you get many cafes that allow 'unlimited topups' on drinks and sometimes even food. The Germans take what they need and are happy. In the UK it wouldn't work as too many people would cram their plates with hundreds of portions that they don't need and run off with it. That's our moronic mentality and we get what we deserve as a result.
Pizza Hut proved this theory when they introduced their 'all you can eat' deal in the UK. It had to be scrapped through the sheer greed of people taking far too much, more than they could ever it, and then it getting thrown in the bin. Yet it works for them in almost every other country they do it in...except the tourist areas of Spain of course where there's loads of Britons.
Expect several people to reply to this saying 'if such a company offers that they should expect it' which proves the concept 100%.
As with so many other walks of life, we get precisely what we deserve in this country because too many of us are greedy, selfish morons.