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Due to the fact that broadband is becoming more and more accessible will prices come down and if so how by how much in the future. Anyone give me a clue
 
prices have already fallen nd are in-line with Dial-Up prices which is a great achievement. Wouldn't expect 512K to drop below £15 and 1Mbp below £20. (uncapped that is). It's just not feasible.
 
glenamber said:
Due to the fact that broadband is becoming more and more accessible will prices come down and if so how by how much in the future. Anyone give me a clue


I think 512Kbs is close to the minimum we will see. It's probably unlikely to go up in price though. 1Mbs & 2Mbs have considerable scope to fall. That unlikely to happen though untill demand picks up at present you can pay up to almost double the 512Kbs price for 1Mbs although it is starting to fall now but most ISP's are still charging 50% plus for 1Mbs. Probably 1Mbs should cost no more then 20% above the 512kbs price.
 
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most ISP's are still charging 50% plus for 1Mbs. Probably 1Mbs should cost no more then 20% above the 512kbs price.

Don't forget with a 1mb ADSL connection this is twice as fast as a 512k connection (obviously, you might say) but this also means you can potentially use twice the amount of bandwidth in a month - not jsut download faster but download a lot more too.

A 512k connection running at full pelt for a month can download about 160GB of data; a 1mb connection running equally to the max can shift about 310GB of data. What you would do with all of this is anyones guess, but anyway...

Bandwidth costs ISP's money, a lot of money (ie the fees from the tier-1 networks to carry the traffic between one ISP and another); there are a lot of hidden costs to this - such as network routers, switches, fibre cables etc etc, (CISCO kit is not cheap), on top of this the more users on 1mb there are, the bigger the connection pipes between the ISP's and BT need to be, again to cope with all the extra bandwidth. This all has to be paid for somehow.

Therefore as more people use 1mb connection the costs to ISP's would also potentially double too as the amount of data the ISP's networks need to carry would also potentially double, all these costs need to be paid for somehow, so I think its unlikely you will get near a 20% premium for a 1mb connection over 512k too soon.

Kind regards
Doug
 
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