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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
http://www.adslguide.org/newsarchive.asp?item=2560
£25 a month for 8meg and a decent usage allowance beats NTL's 2meg for £25 doesn't it?
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correction - upto 8meg!
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Depends on how you see it, the consensus here seems to be a lower burst speed which is unmetered is preffered over a higher speed that has a cap especially if the higher speed is unreliable. Zen I will hold with high credibility as they seem to set their prices at a level where they can sustain their service.
Home 250 £17.99 288kbps 288kbps Unlimited
Zen 8000 Active £24.99 8192kbps 448kbps 20GB downloads
Zen 8000 Pro £34.99 8192kbps 448kbps 50GB downloads
for 17.99 on ntl you get 1meg unmetered but with lower upload speed. For 24.99 you get 2meg unmetered and of course ntl outdoes them on the 34.99. What you not picking up on here is 2 key points.
1 - ntl do not have proper monitoring in place and enforcement and so if they rolled out a 24.99 10meg service with lower cap there would be problems with people abusing it and using more then the 34.99 cap level.
2 - their is problems now with just the top tier on 10meg where ntl do not have the capacity to provide the service on a national level, do you read the forums? ntl are playing catchup with their network right now and need to get the bandwidth in place to enable them to further rollout. Zen on the other hand have always kept their capacity ahead of demand so dont have contention problems this enables them to rollout higher speeds on a better timescale.