ISP’s looking at Banning Youtube and Iplayer
- 13th Nov 2008
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- Dave
The Internet is not Free, The Internet is not Free, The Internet is not Free … repeat until it sinks in. As you may be aware Bronco is an ISP, so it’s something that I do know about!
With the increase in high bandwidth app’s like iPlayer, YouTube and iTunes increase, I thought that the ISPs that benefited from offering cheap broadband with a free laptop and 1 years supply of beer ( last bit may have been an offering we were looking at!), then Griffin partnered with Tiscali and since then Griffins Quality of service dropped so much their business offering was just as bad as Tiscali’s home offerings
So in a recent email from our supplier Griffin, we are now informed that we need to increase of prices to customers by up to 12% and if their usage goes over 50gb a month they will have to have an extra BT line and get another adsl account ..
PlusNet recently complained that their average cost per user has tripled since the launch of the iPlayer and other leading ISPs approach the BBC for funding to off-set their increase in costs. Entanet well they aren’t bothered they offer a PAYG service? … but if the big ISP’s can’t bash out a deal Youtube in the UK may be a thing of the past ..
DaveN
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I reckon they’d lose too much business if they started banning YouTube. Since iPlayer they’ve been trying to get the BBC to pay for the increase in usage which really isn’t fair, the ISPs should be trying to improve their capabilities instead.
You’ve got to be annoyed at the ISPs who for years have been overselling their bandwidth without having the capacity to deliver it at its fullest rate. Now it’s come back to bite them in the arse and consumers should be up in arms about it. I’m emailing Watchdog right now…
a lot reduce band with for torrent and peer to peer,,, Iplayer is peer to peer,
also so is skype peer to peer.. that was also on the hit list..
@dio I think this was a BT directive, most ISP’s have to run on the BT network at some… BT are putting the prices up to the resellers
Dave
I expect Virgin Media will be loving this!
You can see why some companys are having to up the price. Im on free broadband with sky, even though its free for me it still has a cost for them, i wouldnt be suprised to maybe see “Budget” packages being made available, E.g. free broadband is limitd to which sites services you can use. The packages with a fee should however be un restricted.
If you pay for a 8mb line then you shouldn’t be told you cant use a service your TV licence has paid for.
I remember reading an article about this on the BBC news site about 6-12 months ago. They talked about a UK provider who are upfront about there bandwidth limits and throttling. I remember looking at there site thinking they were real good guys as they were against a 2 tier Internet…
…but for the life of me I couldn’t remember who they were until I read this post - PlusNet. Are they good then?
@GaryD most service providers have fair usage policy and also torrent sharing policies
@chis Plusnet not sure how good they are, we provide a BT backbone here that’s why I Knew about the price increase and the adsl bonding lines
Could this the beginning of ISP’s getting a revenue share for all adverts being served up?
I am sure they would like to argue that they are investing in infrastructure to connect users and marketers; and would like to take a slice of this growing advertising medium.
Or am I going all X-Files?
Well I’m still constantly amazed at how much the rest of the world gets… and how much they complain.
We have one service provider… and insanely low caps… and insanely high costs.
No the internet is not free… it never was, never will be… but it’s always going to be a lot free-er for some.
@chis .. I’ve used PlusNet for a few years now. Never really had many issues apart from the occasional surge. I believe BT own them.
@GaryD
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2230338/virgin-slash-jobs
I may be a bit naive but I keep believing that market forces will balance this one out.
With the great force and influence of the Internet on society services like Youtube and Iplayer should be able to survive.
If ISP´s start banning sites, they will lose a lot of business, if not all of it.
@DaveN I understand fair usage but if we pay for the content on the BBC website through our licence fee we should not have that restricted, Weather that means the BBC should subsidise then im not sure, Im sure if that came into play then the licence fee would rise to cover it.
My comment about Vigin media loving it was more aimed at the bandwidth capacity they can handle as they are cable, I may be wrong but i am under the impression Virgin can supply far greater bandwidth without compromising quality of service compared with internet through a phone cable..
If some ISP’s start to block Iplayer etc im sure people may look to virgin if its available as they could handle the needs of a user better.
I think your missing the point Dave. You go public it has a price……..
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