BT is introducting Bandwidth Limits


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From BT's New Broadband terms and conditions:

Why is BT introducing usage allowances?

BT is introducing usage allowances on its Broadband products in order to offer a better and fairer deal to the majority of customers. The benefit of introducing usage limits is that it enables us to charge most users substantially less.

Usage allowances give you the ability to transfer up to 15Gb of data per month with the BT Broadband and BT Yahoo! Broadband 512kbps services or 30Gb of data per month with the BT Broadband 1Mb or BT Yahoo! Broadband 1MB services. The amount of data transferred is the total data received by the end user (downloaded) AND sent by the end user (uploaded) over their broadband service and is measured in Kilobytes (KB), Megabytes (Mb) or Gigabytes (GB). 1Mb = 1024KB; and 1GB = 1024Mb.

Check out the table below to give you an idea of what 15GB a month usage allowance may mean to you. All of these things - not just one of them - are possible within 15GB a month;

Surfing the Internet - 15 hours each day

Sending 250 JPEG pictures via e-mail every week

Receiving 250 JPEG pictures via e-mail every week

Downloading 250 music tracks every week

Downloading three hours of video clips every week

Listening to online radio for fifteen hours every week

Sending 3000 emails every week without (no attachments)

Receiving 3000 emails every week (no attachments)

Will BT start charging me if I use more than 15 / 30Gb per month?

These allowances have been set at levels that will not affect the vast majority of our customers.

BT will not start charging for usage above the allowances until early 2005. After this time, if you go over your monthly allowance you can decide if you want to buy more capacity, so you are in control of your bill. We will confirm prices for additional usage nearer this time but indicative prices for additional usage allowance top ups are currently ?2 per additional GB, although we plan to develop a range of options that could make this even less.

What will I be charged if I use more than 15 / 30Gb? >

Remember most customers will not be affected by these limits. In the event that you use up your monthly allowance, you decide if you want to buy more capacity, so you have control of your bill. BT will only begin to apply these charges in early 2005 and will confirm prices for additional usage nearer this time. Indicative prices for additional usage allowance top ups are ?2 per additional GB, although BT plans to develop a range of options that could make this even less.

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wow..that reminded me of comcast where they didn't have ANYTHING about bandwith limits for their costumers, and when people "abused" the bandwith, thats what they say, they shut them down. i download about 100GB a month and upload 40GB but they still dont cap me. I guess their aiming for warez people and people who secretly uncap their modems ;)

what you guys fail to realise is that these restrictions hjave been in place since 4 years ago. i was one of the first people i know to get broadband and these restrictions always applied, the only difference is that they are enforcing it in 2005 however i would say i downloaded more than a lot of people and im hard pushed to consoistently break th 30gb download limit and if i do its only by a gig or two so thats only an additional 4 quid. no prob in my opinion.

If there not enforcing a policy, its not a restriction.

There was nothing in their General Terms of Service on Bandwidth Limits when I signed up to BT broadband and I for one will be cancelling my Broadband, Phone, everything with BT and moving to another provider.

I will make it known to BT that, this is my reason for changing and hope that many others do too.

wow..that reminded me of comcast where they didn't have ANYTHING about bandwith limits for their costumers, and when people "abused" the bandwith, thats what they say, they shut them down. i download about 100GB a month and upload 40GB but they still dont cap me. I guess their aiming for warez people and people who secretly uncap their modems ;)

I have never had any contact with Comcast about my usage. I download about 12GB a day and upload somewhere around 3GB. I guess here in chicago i am just another "average user" to them ;)

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