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BBC's net video service has ISPs up in arms
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BBC's net video service has ISPs up in arms | BBC's net video service has ISPs up in arms |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 14 August 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Internode product manager, Jim Kellett, told iTWire that when the current high capacity plans were priced the majority of users rarely exhausted their available quota each month, but that was proving to no longer be the case for the largest download plans. "We find the average person on an 80Gbyte plan is using more than 80 Gbytes while the average user on a 10Gbyte plan uses about four." Featured Whitepaper
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The UK ISPs are reportedly calling for the BBC to contribute to their bandwidth costs, are threatening to block its video content and stirring up the whole net neutrality debate in the UK. Such measures are respectively, inequitable (why single out the BBC?); amount almost to censorship; or a long term solution. In the mean time it seems they should really be packaging their offerings in ways that reflect real world costs and usage patterns. But it will be far harder to impose these on UK users accustomed to unlimited downloads than it was for Internode - whose customers are generally relatively tech-savvy (it does no consumer-targeted advertising) to lift its prices by up to 25 percent.{moscomment} |
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