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Originally Posted by piaswales
NTL make a lot of money doing what they do, and as a hugely successful company, indeed, doing what they do, they also know better than most about how to make money. My point being that NTL know exactly what they are doing, like in morgans point- the prison knew the killer would go and kill again- and yet they gave him a bigger weapon to go and do it. Just the same with NTL.
If ntl complain about network congestion then they must take some responsibility, as they have given us the tools to do so.
I have heard many times the old metaphor of " It's like giving you a car that you can drive 300mph in, but only letting you drive to the end of the street".
Those bigwigs at ntl know exactly what they are doing, they aren't in this to be overly concerned over what people are downloading or how much- at the end of the day they are in it primarily make money out of us. If their system didn't work then they would have no custom and no money.
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But some users are saying that if you give them a 300mph car then they should be able to drive it at that speed and not 1mph slower 24/7/365. Ever thought along the lines of having a faster speed enables you to do what you want quicker rather than exploiting it to the max for just as long. It's a bit like in the days of Concorde you chose to fly on it because you got there a lot quicker. You didn't travel twice as far because the faster speed allowed you to do so in the same time.
As for NTL being in it to make money, what a fantastic idea it is for a business to actually want to make a profit. Most ISPs have not made any money out of broadband and are desperately looking for ways to change this situation. They cannot do this if they are allowing some customers to pay £38 per month for a service that should cost £2-£300 per month for the usage levels they have.