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Originally Posted by Earwig
Why are you so obsessed with NTL providing Broadband speed for films for which they get nothing out of?
On some of my posts about Movie Rentals via download you said why should NTL provide me with the bandwidth to download from someone elses movie rentals becuase they will gain nothing out of it....?
My answer to this is becuase NTL are an I.S.P and it is their job to supply the connections to keep up with the speed of the web and future developements and progress.
If they wish to add Movie Rentals to their list of services then fine, but first and foremost they should provide the connection to facilitate it.
They cannot have their fingers in all the pies and I am sure they do not wish to....
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NTL are not just an ISP and they are not a charitable organisation. They will use their products in whatever way maximises the profit for them. Network infrastructure costs money which has to come from customers by either charging them all the same price or charging them based on their usage. Why shouldn't an ISP operate a service that pays for the cost of the infrastructure needed to sustain it rather than pay for the infrastructure for someone else to make all the profit from it?
The big obsession being shown is that of very heavy bandwidth users wanting ISP's to provide uncapped services at below cost price to satisfy their greed.