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Old 07-05-2012, 05:37 AM   #12
JoeD
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Unlimited up to 20MB/1Mb but in reality 5Mb/1Mb for £7.50p/m.

There's still a small number of ISPs in the UK that offer truly unlimited data services. It annoyed me no end when other ISPs claimed to be unlimited* with fair usage caps, I'm glad they're now showing actual cap limits.

Harry: I agree it's not fair for a tiny % in general to use so much of the bandwidth. However, usage is generally increasing across the board now. It's no longer just people illegally downloading that are high consumers now, so that top % is likely to go from 0.1% to a much larger % of their user base, eventually what was considered high usage for 0.1% may be common usage for the majority of broadband users.

With so many on demand services, just watching one film per night on Sky Anytime+ would use up 15-30GB of data and many households have people watching more than one film or different films/tv shows in different rooms. Add to that people using voip/video conferencing, downloading game patches and other streaming services, bandwidth usage is going through the roof.

Whilst it depends on the home, if there's just one user then bandwidth could be anywhere from 1GB to 30GB a month quite easily. Take that to a multi-user home though and I can see families using anywhere from 10GB to over 100GB per month without trying.

Whether that means those users end up on fixed cap plans and have to pay more than low usage users, we'll have to see how ISPs handle it. At first everyone was unlimited, then all capped, now we have a majority with caps and a few unlimited. Time will tell

Last edited by JoeD; 07-05-2012 at 05:46 AM.
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