Ignite
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| Net Neutrality debate crosses the Pond
Oh look it's Tiscali complaining...
This is the ISP that shapes the crap out of P2P pretty much 24x7 and has been known for throttling people's connections to ISDN speed for daring to use 350MB in a week.
Ah Carphone Warehouse. Another company shaping the hell out of their customers for using relatively little, simply because they charge so little for their service that to do anything else isn't viable.
Not sure what BT's problem is, but I'm sure it's nothing at all to do with their recent launch of a VoD product with catchup services which would potentially lose out to the BBC. Nah not at all.
To put these comments into context the regulator in the UK holds wholesale prices for non-unbundled loops artificially high in order to 'stimulate competition', and due to the high number of ISPs a lot compete on price with very very little profit margin at all, hence the ridiculous restrictions on usage. |
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TKJunkMail
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| But the BBC even admits they are causing a problem. So it isn't just ISP whining.
A senior insider at BT added: "It is certainly a live debate between ISPs [internet service providers] and the BBC. If the BBC gets the numbers it wants for iPlayer then network capacity could become an issue."
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deadi
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ISPs are only supposed to provide access as far as I understand. Sounds like shoddy service to me regardless of what the BBC thinks. |
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Ignite
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| reply to TKJunkMail
Don't see where your quote says that the BBC admit it's causing a problem, that was a 'senior insider' at BT who said that.
Besides the services is not even at full launch yet, just ISPs scared that their average bandwidth usage will increase so those stupidly cheap deals they've been pimping to try and get business will become uneconomical and they'll probably just respond by throttling even harder, all 3 mentioned ISPs traffic shape to varyingly aggressive degrees. |
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