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Old Jun 13, 2009, 08:19 PM   #1
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Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

One of the UK's largest ISPs says that the "free ride" is over for popular Web services like video streaming, which are building "very profitable business models" by using ISP pipes. In BT's view, it's time for streaming video to pay up for better service.

Major UK Internet provider BT opened up yesterday on the discriminatory traffic throttling it applies to streaming online video under certain plans. BT's John Petter says that the "free ride" is over for popular streaming services like the BBC's iPlayer and that they need to pay up for "developing very profitable business models" by using BT's pipes.
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Old Jun 13, 2009, 08:33 PM   #2
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

The british companies continue to rape the british/UK public. No one official does anything. Well done.
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I'm watching UFC99 online now if anyone from BT is reading this could you please wait till it's finished before throttling me LOL
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

great, the UK public getting shafted that bit more in the bb stakes.
yay

as it is now its a toss of a coin whether CS:S wil work between 4 and 9pm, let alone watching streaming video without constant buffering.
bring on fiber nationwide already!
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

What, you mean a company should take a part of it's income and invest it in development so that it would be ready for the demands of the market in the future? What an odd idea!
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LOL, agreed. Especially in the uk when sooner or later the government will see the potential to gain a headline and will pay for it anyway............out of taxpayers money.
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

In fairness to the ISPs, why should a standard website pay the same style of rates as those using a far larger bandwidth?

We can talk about companies meeting customer demands but the people who use DH exckusively for example will use a lot less bandwidth than a 1/10th of the users using youtube. Upgrading the infrastructure will cost money and would you prefer the money spread across all users. including those who just use email and basic browsing or focusing the cost on the small percentage who use video streaming and the business's that supply it?
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

I guess this is what happens when the global economy goes to hell, the suits need to step up to a higher level of greediness. The worst part is, in some countries if all the ISP's do the same thing the customer will have no choice but to bend over and take it.
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

Throttling depending on the hour and on the website, I don't like that. Personally, I prefer if a plan is available with the bandwidth not throttled and with a maximum transfer limit for the month. That allows you to occasionally use a video streaming website as long as you don't use it too often. If you go outside your monthly limit, you pay for the GB over the limit. That's like with a cellphone bill. The basic plan is cheap but if you go over the number of minutes in your plan, you pay a lot.
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

It's all bullshit if you ask me. If they needed to do this they would demand from the media heavy companies to pay, not the people using the sites. But where they can't do that easilly, they can with you and me.
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

Why else do we buy their high speed broadband, if there is not stuff that needs it?

BT have some pretty quota limited packages at the lower levels, so I really can't see what they have to bitch about!

A gig or 2 or 3 a month? that's dial-up replacement broadband and nothing more!
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

There are other ISPs in the UK that offer far higher speeds without throttling / shaping. And they're not fibre either.
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

BT Make enough money already off their ridiculous price phone lines and tariffs to be able to do this. Luckily we're on Virgin in our household which just let us run free, probably explains why their sales are through the roof
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

It's all swings and roundabouts though. With BT you get free unlimited access to the FON newtwork when out and about with your laptop. Also included is upto 500 free minutes with OpenZone hotspots (dependant on your home broadband option).

I get the above, 16Mbps broadband from November (currently 6Mbps sync), landline with free national calls, free 802.11n router and free 'phone for £28/month.

Personally, I don't like BT though!
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Re: Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over

Wow that's a tough one for all of you UK guys out there. Unfortunately, here in the States (in my area) you are only allowed to choose between ONE DSL provider and ONE highspeed cable provider so you are at their mercy ALWAYS. The really angering thing here is the throttling of P2P downloads ( I don't know if you all are getting that shaft or not but we are here) so using 6 mb/s of bandwidth on a standard highspeed cable is chopped down to under 1 mb/s speed when you run a P2P sharing software. I'm not talking about just Bittorrent or something "illegal" im also talking about WoW update downloader that also uses a P2P client and many other gaming update clients etc.
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