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Originally Posted by Earwig
Just wondering though if the quote from NTL about only 2% of it's customers going over the cap is to be beleived??
If in fact only 2% DO go over the cap then what harm could their be in offering 10Mbit without a cap? As hardly anyone would go over it.....AND if they are upping it to 75GB then that must surely reduce that 2% further still? 
I think they are not giving the right figures there.......  |
Dead right I'm afraid, of that 2% that break their limit perhaps 50% of them are doing 3 figures a month, and there's a small percentage that are doing full whack on their connections 24x7. On 10Mbit that's absolutely unsustainable, 1 person doing that will eat over 25% of an entire uBR card.
10Mbit = 100GB/day = 3TB/month, and you can guarantee there will be idiots who do that. TW are in for some fun.
Also TW have made a huge concession with remaining uncapped - the upload on their 10Mbit product, a mere 384kbps.
Harm offering 10Mbit uncapped is it only takes 4 planks to cripple several thousand quid of capacity - as TW may well find out in the near future.
You'll hate me for this but I hope that the uncapped packages are at most the current 1/2/3Mbit (this is most likely I reckon) preferably 512k, 1Mbit and 2Mbit, especially with the increasing rarity of uncapped DSL products.