Everybody is complaining about the 75gb cap not being enough and that UK Online are offering unlimited on 8mb. NTL will be fully aware of this and know that people will emigrate to the "other side" and will, undoubtedly, raise their cap limit when they start losing customers.Just because something is announced doesn't mean it's written in stone. NTL would be shooting themselves in the foot if they stuck to their guns and kept to the 75gb cap. Expect a change of policy where 10mb gets 300 - 500gb and other speeds (I think they will still keep the 1mb, 2mb options) will be unlimited (subject to the usual congestion rules etc). This will encourage all those who want to download HD content from NTL (and pay extra maybe) to go for the 10mb and all other who want to surf and play games (and download thirty linux distros a month
) can stick with their slower speeds. Me, personally, I would rather stay with 2mb and be unlimited. It's fast enough for what I want to do.
And when they say "Downloading 500gb severly cocks up the network for others" you know that what they really mean is "Of course we can handle that kind of usage - we'd be the laughing stock of the ISP market if we couldn't - we just want you to pay more for the privelage."