How crappy is the UK when it comes to new media? UK ISPs to throttle BBCs video service
While the network neutrality debate can sometimes feel a bit theoretical in the US, it’s a live issue in Europe, and this week it hit the pages of newspapers across the UK. What made news was a set of demands by UK ISPs, which banded together to tell the BBC that the ISPs would start to throttle the Corporation’s new iPlayer service because it could overwhelm their networks. Unless the BBC pays up, of course.
I could almost see the ISPs point in this if it wasn’t for the fact we pay so much for so little and even the most ignorant telco exec could see this coming, or if not has had plenty of time to see the growth of P2P. It doesn’t take nostrildamnus to predict the ways the internets is growing.
It’s widely known the UK gets shafted on the old broadband, now they want tax payer money to upgrade their gear?
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