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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I dont argue the benefits for phone's when the cable companies appeared on the scene but back then they were all different various companies I remember around here it was diamond cable or something, but the cable companies you see now days are different to 10 years ago they are a much more bigger force.
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Which was the major failing of the whole UK cable initiative, to cable an area and build distribution onto that network was costly and benefitted from economies of scale which the small companies did not have. Looking at the networks now, there are three distribution points and if TW had bought C&W the identical standards would mean that would probably be 2.
Some network owners realised this and built on the cheap to sell on before anyone noticed (Videotron) others built well, but really the government should have sold one cable licence to overlya the BT licence and had a requrement for %s to be cabled by certain points in time.
The companies are a bigger force, but the evolution has been at high cost, such that NTL is still battling to consolidate billing systems and still running two CATV/BB networks. Challenges Sky never had to overcome. Imagine Sky having to broadcast from 3 sats, using 3 different protocols and billing everyone with a further 3 different billing systems. Thats where cable is today.
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Originally Posted by Keane
i've just learnt about this and i've 2 questions
1. when?
2. they said they weren't increasing prices, but people would have to pay different amounts depending on how much they doing
a. will this mean the 30gb cap will a free limit and if you go over, you get charged extra
b. any idea how much extra (if extra) we will need to pay
there are 66 pages so forgive me for not going 1 after 1 to find the answers
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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/...ed-as-standard
Soon
Yes
Seems like the fastest speed will be capped and the lower speeds not.
Nothing
True