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Originally Posted by erol
I suspect the intial motivation from NTL was to be able to automaticaly move people from one dial up number to another, based on loads being experienced and so on. However I also suspect that any other number of 'good ideas' were then tacked onto this and no consideration was given for the downsides.
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Loads will vary from day to day and hour to hour. They can't use it to move them onto another number if there is a heavy load because the number is dialled and connected before it gets the chance to alter the number.
If it is for load balancing I would have thought that it would be easier and more efficient to intercept the call on its way into the NTL system and route it to whatever location they wanted.
It would be interesting to hear the technical reasons why they have chosen to take this route and taken away the freedom of users to choose an operating system. After all it is called NTL: Freedom.