Well, a practice that got Canadian ISPs into hot water recently seems to have jumped the pond.
From Boing Boing:
Bell Canada, the national Canadian telcom, has been caught filtering P2P connections initiated by customers of its reseller ISPs — that means that if you start a funky little ISP in Toronto and buy a giant fat industrial pipe from Bell to serve it, Bell will secretly throw away your customers’ packets.
That was back last year. Now, fast forward to 2009. Dateline, London.
From BBC:
Britain’s biggest broadband supplier has been accused of limiting download speeds on its cheapest package without giving users a clear warning.
BT Broadband cuts the speed users can watch video services like the BBC iPlayer and YouTube at peak times.
A customer who has signed up for an up to 8 megabit per second package can have their speed cut to below 1Mbps.
A BT spokesman said the firm managed bandwidth “in order to optimise the experience for all customers”.
In Canada this type of behaviour prompted a significant backlash. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a similar result in the UK.
that sucks
The Belgian ISP Telenet has been throttling bittorrent to 50Kbps for years. Doesn’t matter if you are downloading the latest backtrack or fedora ISO. Joe Average here doesn’t care.
I just moved to another ISP.
BT also limit outer surpliers i was with bt get 2.5meg connetion speed i change to sky but keeped there phone line had 2.5meg con after 1 year i left bt got my line rental with sky now i had both with sky after 1 month my connection drop to 1 meg (im paying for 8meg con) i look at my rooter status every time it connected at 1044 kbs every time i got sick it after week and phone sky up asking why my con been drop they told my it has not i told them that iv been get over 2mg last year and it con at 1044 every time i reboot rooster told them i now it being limited they told me its bt limiting to connection to help keep it stable con , i told crap been stable over a year not have it they told me they sort it get hold bt after week my con whent but up to 2meg con so bt also control the lines even when you change over to outer suppliers. it wrong i pay for 8 meg con there still limiting it.
ps sorry about spelling