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Originally Posted by Salu
There is something inherently psychological that inhibits your online experience if you feel that the meter is running. It will be terrible if we go down that road again. I can appreciate the buisness model but not from a consumer angle.
Maybe a pay per MB over and above a predetermined cap is an acceptable compromise....
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Without turning this into another capping thread:
1) How do you determine what is an acceptable threshold for a such a limit? Is it set proportionate to the speed of connection, higher threshold for higher speed, or just arbitrary as the present cap policy?
2) With broadband content improving all the time, would a threshold take account of improved content and increasing downloads. After all we see elesewhere on this forum talk of ntl broadband plus which will result in increased downloading.
3) Many pundits say that the cost of moving data is reducing year on year (as companies reinvest and upgrade hardware and infrastructure (Oh I forgot ntl dont do that do they), so any price per data downloaded should also reduce. The effects of that reduction in cost should already show themselves to ntl as better margins as the bb service flat rate price has been fixed (600k) or even gone up (150k) over the last few years?
4) How do you allow users to know that they are going to go over the threshold (ntl have yet to provide any means of so doing despite the cap already in the AUP - even if they now choose not to enforce that)
5) Surely also a MB of data is too small a unit for any metering?
No compromise from me - flat rate uncapped broadband please.