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i think one of the interesting things about this 'cap' is that there is no specified level...at least NTL had the decency to tell people what the level was...I like the speeding analogy...I had used that before when trying to argue that a AUP that had a specified limit was better than one with an arbitrary 'excessive use'...( that DOESNT mean i agree with the level, or with the fact that all tiers had the same cap ) ...
one thing I would point out though, is that while most 'end users' were on dialup, the bandwidth they consumed on teh main backbones was minimal... these backbones have to be paid for and maintained, the heavier users were businesses etc and they paid for it, dialup users pretty much 'piggy backed' on the network...now end users have broadband...they are consuming more and more of the bandwidth...so expect to start paying more of a contribution to the upkeep of the network. Routers, switches, frame relays etc etc are NOT free, hence the (limited) bandwidth that flows through them is also not free...
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