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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber
I'm pretty sure you said no company could pull off an unlimited 2mbit service for £25 a month during NTL's last round of speed upgrades. They've been offering that service unofficially since then, and now made it official.
ISPs such as Be and UKonline have put thought into their unlimited, high speed services, and who knows, NTL may soon follow their lead.
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Why is it people only think that thought has been put into something if they agree with it? Is it not possible, nay, probable, that NTL have put some thought into it (with a bit more access to the actual costs involved) and come to a different but valid conclusion than you have by pulling figures out of a bag?
As has been said many times (many, many times) before, the ADSL offerings are not directly comparable to the cable offerings. The infrastructure costs have been negligible in comparison to the cable companies, the user base is much smaller and they don't have to worry about integrating different platforms from the premerged offerings.
The only thing that has kept them back is the feet dragging of BT in unbundling the local loop and the persistent problem of line distance from the exchange which can cripple the service. And I'm not sure the delay has actually hurt them as much as might seem.
You are buying a service from a company, you don't have to if you don't want to. To use as blatantly cock-eyed an argument as the TV analogy, you don't whinge at your baker because your loaf is capped!