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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
http://www.ntl.com/mediacentre/theco...faq/?section=3
"Q. I've heard that contention ratios differ between cable and ADSL broadband. Can you explain?
A. Yes. We have engineered our local access network to provide a 20:1 contention ratio in comparison to a number of ADSL providers who have contention ratios as high as 50:1. The "contention ratio" is the number of customers that share one unit of data capacity, meaning the lower the contention ratio the higher the quality of the local access network."
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Bullsh**.
Although it does have the claim:
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Q. Where there's a choice between ntl Broadband and ADSL how many take your service?
A. A. We estimate approximately 3 out of 4 customers chose ntl Broadband over ADSL, where ntl is available.
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To keep it company, although that could easily be spun to be claiming that 3 out of 4 customers who already have ntl choose their broadband over ADSL.
Cable covers a bit under 50% of population so if it's outselling DSL 3:1 in its' own areas
it should have about 60% of the total connections DSL has (3:1 + 0:4 = 3:5 = 60%). Considering that ADSL is used by over 8 million people cable should in that case have 4.8 million broadband users. I'm fairly sure it doesn't, I find 2:2 + 0:4 = 2:6 = 33% or about 2.66 million to 8 million far more realistic considering the just under 50% where coverage of both overlaps.