[Chrysalis]

Not quite sure, it might be enough to just have a high speed available not necessarily at bargain base price.

zen for example have kept their 250kbit product live as they know their is a demand for low speed broadband at dialup price. No point selling a 8meg product at that price it isnt viable.

Plusnet appear to be planning on selling 8meg for a stupid price but their pricing models are stupid, bulldog seem to offer 8meg for under £20 but they are distance dependant and they know a great deal of customers due to distance will get a lot less and I bet law of averages would put it at around 4meg or so per customer. Also they are making massive losses on their consumer dsl market.

Both ntl and bt wholesale I can see struggling with mass rollout of anything above 2meg with their current infrastructure's the users are sharing a small bandwidth pool, LLU they share a gig pipe. Of course anything is possible with shaping but if ntl suddenly stick their entire customer base on 10meg the shaping needed to provide acceptable performance would be pretty heavy without network investment alongside it.