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Originally Posted by Rob2005
...good point.
Having read this forum for a while, I always found the discussions about caps laugable in the sense that I couldn't believe some people could actually download so much. Then I discovered newsgroups....All the latest American telly at the touch of a button. After 1 month of it, I'm hooked and I can see why others are too. Once you've got used to DIY VOD, you can never go back. Its the future, very much now.
As I have now gone over the usage allowance myself, I'm on 3MB broaband, this thread is all the more important.
I had a look at my old Bell Cablemedia/Cable & Wireless telephone bills yesterday, to see how much I used to spend on internet over the old dial up system which of course went over the telephone line. My basic bill just for telephone charges for the internet were in excess of £150 per month for a 33/56k service. Now I'm paying under £40 for 3MB broadband, "soon" to be 10MB.
I am sure there are some people out there who would be willing to pay more for their internet. So why can't ntl offer us a unlimited, no cap service now and charge us for it?. We're all aware of the ntl "coming soon", my tv service still has the lurid pink software, the upgrade has been "coming soon" for months...
I bet I can't be the only one who used to get these hefty telephone bills and would be quite happy for ntl to relieve me of some more cash for a heavy usage service. I would be happy to pay £60 for a non-capped service, and wouldn't complain if the charges were higher, although probably wouldn't spend over £100 now. What do others think? What would you be prepared to pay if ntl did offer a high speed, non cap service right now?
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...good post. IMHO ntl are shooting themselves in the foot far too early. Just round the corner there are VOD services that are going to pop up all over the show which will require users to have much bigger caps than 30Gb. SO what are ntl going to do - put everyone on 512. Who's going to bother with 10Gb when you can hardly use it - seems absolutely pointless to me. As has been said a multitude of times before, speed isn't a factor for surfing webpages -I couldn't care less whether I have a 512Mb line which loads a page in x.xx seconds, but could have a 10Mb line that loads then in y.yy seconds. IN the real world the difference is negligable. The only real beneft of increased speed is lower download times and if you've got such a crap cap, the far cheaper 512 service will get you all you require albeit in a longer time frame (but if you're organised does this really matter?)
I'd like to know who's going to pay £20 more for a 10Gb service when it is so severly pegged back? I can see ntl only backtracking on this in the months to come - and by then I will have upped shop and gone - too little too late IMHO.