Along with Nildram's recent price restructuring on it's residential broadband product come a sting in the tail, it is introducing a new fair usage policy which will include capping.

From March 2005, new Broadband2 customers will be subject to a  monthly usage limit of 50GB, existing consumer customers who are not on any Nildram PAYG services will not escape, but have until July when the updated fair use policy will be introduced.

The usage policy will only apply during peak periods, between 8.00am and 12.00 midnight and data downloaded outside of these times will not be added to the monthly quota. Peak period times includes weekends and bank holidays.
Staring in July, customers whot exceed the 50GB limit will still be able to continue their service at a reduced speed of 64kb for the rest of the month or will have the option to remain at their rated speed by buying extra bandwidth at 99p per GB.
Those users that do not exceed their 50GB allowance will be able to carry over unused usage to the following month, although this will be forfeited after this month.

“In addition, we are committed to enabling those few customers that do exceed their usage limits to continue to access the Internet at a reduced speed or offering them the opportunity to buy extra bandwidth at a competitive price,”

 Sean Stephenson, Managing Director of Nildram