i have read reports of significant throttling. ie, torrents are slower than 2mb during the day.

Yes, it's nasty. Sky will show 'em how it's done.

Possibly also an expensive but deliberate policy to attract customers before Sky, BE et al have their chance.

Locking people into 18 month contracts whilst BT Retail determines how they will compete in the future on a competitive landscape.

In reply to a post by gazter:

i have read reports of significant throttling. ie, torrents are slower than 2mb during the day.

Been with Bt Infiity for over 6 weeks now,torrents speed for my downloads are blistering,
just downloaded a 700MB movie at 4.3MB(took 3 minutes) in the last hour,uploads are good too,the movie I downloded is uploading at over 200kBs now.But you must configure your torrent correctly,especially post /forwarding.

Not to mention, BT will be rolling out 80/20 soon, possibly before sky even roll out 40/2. I know if I were a paying customer where I'd go...

Would rather see traffic management than a nasty bill when you go over the limit of download/upload.
So the question still remains, Why cant they all offer the same price with the same rules then.
Why put limits on a product and some do charge more when another ISp can offer unlimited for cheaper or around the same price.
It like two garages right next to each another selling the same brand new car for the same price but one has life time warranty and the other only has 6 months.
Am really interested in the thinking behind the ISP,s that offer the same service but capped

BT Group expects to achieve annual revenue of 6 billion pounds by the end of this financial year. (This April).

They have 6 million broadband customers. At the end of December 400,000 were on fibre. If they have priced fibre at £10 per month less than they should for the unlimited and largely unmanaged service they provide, which perhaps they have done, they are reducing that revenue by £48,000,000. Forty-eight million out of six thousand million.

A fleabite in their budget, to grab the bulk of the market and kill the competition. Their TV advertising will be costing more.

We're already out of our contract with BT for Infinity and sky still haven't got a product out.

Missing the boat springs to mind

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Yes, it's nasty. Sky will show 'em how it's done.

Yup by offering only 2Mb upload they have a hard cap rather than traffic management.

Let Sky keep all the people who want to download the internet each month, I'm sure on fibre their bandwidth bill will jump.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

BT Group expects to achieve annual revenue of 6 billion pounds by the end of this financial year. (This April).

They have 6 million broadband customers. At the end of December 400,000 were on fibre.

Its worth remembering that this is actually quite impressive given that the 6 million will relate to all BT Retail's broadband customers, while 400,000 has to be seen in context that's only the areas where FTTC is currently available - and in many of these it won't have been for long.

As well as pushing fibre aggressively (compared to other ISP's) and traffic managing torrents, the fact that they have an 18 month minimum contract (rather than a year) also makes it much more viable for them to have lower prices.

Finally their decision to align ADSL and FTTC prices seems to have paid off. BT have never been particularly 'cheap' for ADSL or line rental and being able to offer FTTC at the same price point means that existing customers will be tempted to upgrade(and be subject to new contracts) - while tying them to other BT products.

I recall when I used to meet with BT years ago, one of their main aims was to try and get as much IP traffic on their own network - its a lot cheaper than having to peer with others...

Regards
Sunil