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Chrysalis · 08-08-2005, 03:14

Good news, I would expect this will happen at the time they provide traffic usage graphs for customers and so the soft cap becpmes hard cap but I think the caps will be much higher then current for various reasons.

1 - The burst speed is been raised x5 on the mainstream package and leaving the cap limit unchanged would reflect an imbalance.
2 - Recently one of the major adsl players wannadoo gave free cap increases and is announcing llu upgrades to its network which will probably result in higher caps, this will make ntl (and BT) react with their cap levels.
3 - Other isp's who have caps on a similiar product such as ukonline set their cap levels at 500gig, ukonline recieved quite some publicity so people are aware of what the competition offers.
4 - I think NTL are planning more then just internet on the new infrastructure so it is capable of quite a lot more then previously so can handle higher limits.
5 - A soft cap can be low since noone is really affected by it, when it becomes a hard cap, whilst maximising revenue NTL wont want too many customers to be hitting the cap and making a big noise about those who do hit a low cap.

I expect we will start seeing this in about 6 months then?

08-08-2005, 03:14	#85
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,047	Re: Another speed increase? Good news, I would expect this will happen at the time they provide traffic usage graphs for customers and so the soft cap becpmes hard cap but I think the caps will be much higher then current for various reasons. 1 - The burst speed is been raised x5 on the mainstream package and leaving the cap limit unchanged would reflect an imbalance. 2 - Recently one of the major adsl players wannadoo gave free cap increases and is announcing llu upgrades to its network which will probably result in higher caps, this will make ntl (and BT) react with their cap levels. 3 - Other isp's who have caps on a similiar product such as ukonline set their cap levels at 500gig, ukonline recieved quite some publicity so people are aware of what the competition offers. 4 - I think NTL are planning more then just internet on the new infrastructure so it is capable of quite a lot more then previously so can handle higher limits. 5 - A soft cap can be low since noone is really affected by it, when it becomes a hard cap, whilst maximising revenue NTL wont want too many customers to be hitting the cap and making a big noise about those who do hit a low cap. I expect we will start seeing this in about 6 months then?