[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
C'mon, the iPlayer (then "imp") was first announced back in September 2003, and it's hardly the only service of its type. It's not like ISPs haven't had any warning that bandwidth-heavy mainstream applications were on the way.
IIRC near-ubiquitous bandwidth caps (explicit or hidden away in "fair use" policies) only appeared with BT's launch of 8Mbps IPstream services in March 2006.
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