In the United Kingdom, a Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line (RADSL) connection used to be marketed with a contention ratio between 20:1 and 50:1 within the British Telecom network, meaning that 20 to 50 subscribers, each assigned or sold a bandwidth of up to 8 Mbit/s for instance, may be sharing 8 Mbit/s of downlink bandwidth.
In the United Kingdom, a Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line (RADSL) connection was marketed with a contention ratio between 20:1 and 50:1 within British Telecom's network. This meant that up to 20 to 50 subscribers, each assigned or sold a bandwidth of up to 8 Mbit/s for instance, could share the same downlink bandwidth.