Carlos Roman wrote:
Be do have a fair use policy (https://www.bethere.co.uk/fairusage.do) but no actual mention of what they define as "excessive network usage". I think they were quoted as saying that it was if you downloaded more than 80 GB a month (which so far I've never been penalised for). When O2 called me up to see if I wanted to sign up to their ADSL packages I asked about their data usage. Again they touted about it being unlimited downloads. So I repeated my question again and again, same answer until I ask about their fair use policy. At that point the operator went very quiet put me on hold and came back with the statement that they do have a fair use policy but it isn't enforced at the moment. They are planning at some point to enforce it but they couldn't say when and they also couldn't say how much the cap would be. Again they mentioned the same as can be found on Be's fair use policy about not abusing the network and you'd be fine. So what probably will happen is that once they've over subscribed users like Orange, CPW and Sky did and their network can't take it they'll implement usage caps like everyone else. Let's just hope they don't become too popular :)
If they own their own infrastructure, vertical integration, like Sky, they really do not need to limit usage (other than by the stated capacity of the service e.g. 8 or 24Mb/s).
The growth in the capacity of equipment is adequate to service demand, which is rising at 40% per annum, internationally (See DSLPrime).
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