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Originally Posted by Croker
I heard "in the pub" that they are introducing a kind of turbo/boost facility - so you can be on a lower band and have this boost thing (paid for with use) to download stuff - movies etc  |
Could have just been read on the pdfs that have alluded to flexing of bandwidth and pay per GB. These are in the public domain.
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Originally Posted by bob_builder
As jtwn said that was trialed a long time ago when the basic BB package was 128kb and the boost would get you 1Mb.
Now, though the basic pack is already 1Mb and ISPs have realised that it makes more sense charging for download capacity rather than speed. So I do not think we will see the turbo feature ever becoming standard.
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That's not the case, there were flexing options for all custs, including 1.5Mbit.
You refer to download capacity, there's plenty of options there for higher rate charging for the higher speeds, this is already being done by satellite operators, pay more per GB for higher speeds.