John
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What actually happened is what I've said above, I'd like to hear Robbo's version of events though.
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Robbo
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Perhaps I shoudl direct the question to our Chief Technology Officer, he's sat 10 ft away from me... I'm sure he'd have a chuckle
It's simple economics. We spend over £6 bn A YEAR updating and improving our network acorss our 27 markets and utilise a significnt number of yield management techniques to manage data growth but it is implausible to simply allow every tom dick and harry to consume as much data as they wish. 500MB is enough for 95% of people, quite simply a fact. we, and now most of the other operators (other than 3), have implemented tiered pricing so people can pay for what they use so if you want 1GB then you can have it. We cannot just pump money into the networks without generating a return so have had to go down the tiered pricing route because it is simply not possible to invest in the network to just give away huge amounts fo data, without it beign paid for
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Ojc
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What was last years profit Robbo?
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Jambo
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People doing a job and charging for it rather than giving it away?
I'm shocked.
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Robbo
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Quite!
Ollie - our EBITDA was £14.7bn. Not sure what our actual profit was
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Robbo
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AOP was £11.5m. Still not actual profit though...
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Butler
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quote:
Originally posted by sc0ott
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Originally posted by Butler
Off day mate
This is off day 
Yep
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emicen
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
Perhaps I shoudl direct the question to our Chief Technology Officer, he's sat 10 ft away from me... I'm sure he'd have a chuckle
It's simple economics. We spend over £6 bn A YEAR updating and improving our network acorss our 27 markets and utilise a significnt number of yield management techniques to manage data growth but it is implausible to simply allow every tom dick and harry to consume as much data as they wish. 500MB is enough for 95% of people, quite simply a fact. we, and now most of the other operators (other than 3), have implemented tiered pricing so people can pay for what they use so if you want 1GB then you can have it. We cannot just pump money into the networks without generating a return so have had to go down the tiered pricing route because it is simply not possible to invest in the network to just give away huge amounts fo data, without it beign paid for
Whats the UK reinvestment in network infrastructure as a % of gross vs. more advanced countries like Japan?
I was there in 2004 and their mobile use was through the roof then, be staggering to think what its like now and how they're avoiding their network falling over.
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