> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think the ISPs have a point ... the ADSL network is > (currently) like a collection of country roads (narrow and > fairly slow) which the BBC is trying to drive it's supersize > juggernauts down. Think the ISPs should use some form of > traffic shaping for iPlayer traffic and that the BBC and > other such companies should fess up some of the costs > involved in improving the network if they want to use the net > to push their weighty products. >
You don't happen to work for an ISP do you? ISPs have been pushing us to sign up to their broadband plans with glossy adverts of how we can download Music and Movies faster than before, that we can do so much with the internet and how it can become our central entertainment hub. So they oversubscribe their service and cry when we actually begin to use their unlimited bandwidth that they've sold us (the consumer). This is really a problem with the ISPs business model and now they find it is wrong and they're no longer making a profit. The weighty products are the the things that these ISP promised us we could do with their ultra fast connection and now that we do it we are no longer allowed to use it? That doesn't seem fair to me. Even though I work for the BBC I've always thought it was wrong that ISPs should want to charge content providers to deliver their content to end users. Content providers already pay to server the content, now they are expected to pay another fee because of the profit margins of some ISP? So if BBC coughs up and pays then it will let the ISPs black mail any popular site into paying for delivery of that sites content. ISPs shouldn't be touching my traffic at all (or even looking at it like BT and others plan to do). Their job is to provide me with a net connection and that is it. -C. P.S. These are my own personal views on the subject. - 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]/
