I picked this up from another BB. (Cartoday.com)
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About two years ago I got an ADSL connection at home. It was a 512kbps downstream and 128kbps upstream connection with no traffic cap, just a 'fair-use policy'.
The provider did the following 'upgrades'
In the beginning of the year the connection was upgraded to 768/256.
In November it was upgraded to 1024kbps down and 320kbps up.
In January 2004 it will be upgraded to 2048kbps downstream and 320kbps upstream.
My monthly subs stayed/stays the same, ie no increase. I currently pay EUR55-00 per month. All of this is done as part of the competition between different providers of high-speed internet access. It looks to me like the free-market and the presence of serious competition does work, and sometimes to the advantage of the customers.
FTR. We have about 5 serious ADSL providers (and a lot of ISPs who use the infrastructure provided by the big providers) as well as a few cable-internet providers (where the high-speed data traffic is carried by the cable-TV infrastructure)
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About two years ago I got an ADSL connection at home. It was a 512kbps downstream and 128kbps upstream connection with no traffic cap, just a 'fair-use policy'.
The provider did the following 'upgrades'
In the beginning of the year the connection was upgraded to 768/256.
In November it was upgraded to 1024kbps down and 320kbps up.
In January 2004 it will be upgraded to 2048kbps downstream and 320kbps upstream.
My monthly subs stayed/stays the same, ie no increase. I currently pay EUR55-00 per month. All of this is done as part of the competition between different providers of high-speed internet access. It looks to me like the free-market and the presence of serious competition does work, and sometimes to the advantage of the customers.
FTR. We have about 5 serious ADSL providers (and a lot of ISPs who use the infrastructure provided by the big providers) as well as a few cable-internet providers (where the high-speed data traffic is carried by the cable-TV infrastructure)
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