Have you read the weasel words about Traffic Shaping aka Fair Usage on the Tiscali web site, they are quite a hoot.
Rupert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Sent: 09 April 2008 14:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed Mr I Forrester wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/bbc_highfield_isp_threat/ The saga continues courtesy of the Reg. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/bbc_tiscali_iplayer/ (BBC vs ISPs: Bandwidth row escalates as Tiscali wades in) ISPs seem to be upset by the idea they should provide customers with what they pay for! If I buy an Unlimited plan from an ISP why shouldn't I connect my machine and transfer data full speed for the entire month? (Which technically still isn't unlimited because I am capped by the fact that I can't transmit at an infinite speed). ISPs exploit customers ignorance to make money. As I stated earlier the average man in the street has no idea what "8 GB a Month" actually means. Maybe we should just re-nationalise the communications infrastructure? Andy - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
