NTL, a major UK broadband provider, announced that it was limiting is users to 1GB of download traffic per day. It announced yesterday:
“Home’s broadband and dial-up services are intended for normal recreational or educational use by individuals and families and our pricing and network architecture have been designed accordingly. Customers who use the services more heavily than a normal home user will reduce the performance of the network for other customers.
‘Normal use’ of the service is defined as up to 1 gigabyte downstream of data transfer daily (which equates to approximately 200 music tracks, 650 short videos, 10,000 pictures or around 100 large software programmes downloaded per day).”
The company once encouraged its consumers to overload their cable modems by constant use, but those consistently practicing this will be removed from the service.
