Re: Money talks
> Forget tweaking the advertising of 'up to', just introduce a policy that if you get sold '40 Mbps for £30' and you get 20 Mbps you pay £15.
OK, not for the ISP, but for the company that provides the actual cabling, in most cases the cost of putting the connection in is probably inversely proportional to the speed you get.
Force all the telecoms companies to provide fibre to premise and your proposal might work, but in most cases the ISP is not the people to lay the cabling.
Also when ISPs try and charge for the amount of data used then there is a chorus of out cries from people who don't like to pay for what they use. The costs to the ISP (apart from what they have to pay for the wires) is probably mostly down to the amount of data shifted.
BTW, I have both metered and unmetered connections at home.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
