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Re: This is Telco's equivalent to Cable node overload said by Capt Cap :
As you might recall, British Telecom has been screeching about the same thing because of BBC iPlayer.
Say hello to metering!
I haven't seen BT complain about iPlayer (indeed, their own IPTV service now includes iPlayer content, but at a price). If they did, it would be in the context of their own retail network, not the wholesale ADSL network that other ISPs also use (and that'll change when they get their IP network up and running).
Nor have they floated the idea of traffic shaping on the wholesale level.
The only ISPs I have seen complaining are the likes of Tiscali which cut costs everywhere and their customers wonder why dialup is faster. |
