How accurate is this statement? ADSL knowalls

Stellios · 29 Mar 2006 at 01:29

A guy on the PlusNet forum just made this statement and i really dont know what to think, to me sounds like a load of tosh to try and shut their customers up. Obviously staff pay etc comes into question, but considering the profit they make im very suspicious about this statement.

At £14.99 really customers are only 'buying' about 2GB of bandwidth per month!

True or false?

xb8browney · 29 Mar 2006 at 07:14

I thought it was 50p per GB?

garyh · 29 Mar 2006 at 07:45

BT wholesale pricing is more expensive than you think.

woodsy · 29 Mar 2006 at 08:05

well i'm with freedom 2 surf and for 14.99 you get a 2GB a month cap

tolien · 29 Mar 2006 at 11:11

By the time you lose £8.50 for the port, you're only left with £6.49 - so the most you're going to get is about 6GB (~70p-£1 per GB on a Central at about full load).
Without knowing their calculations for transit, staff etc, that's about as accurate as you're likely to get.

Skilldibop · 29 Mar 2006 at 12:59

14.99 Is probably about 2GB yes. Less a lil profit margin for your ISP.

Stellios · 29 Mar 2006 at 15:13

OK cool, cheers guys. Was just wndering really.

gam3r · 29 Mar 2006 at 15:28

I thought it was 1pound per gb :confused:

Stellios · 29 Mar 2006 at 15:50

So did i, hence why i asked the question.

tolien · 29 Mar 2006 at 16:09

gam3r said:
I thought it was 1pound per gb

It is...