Fri, 18 April 2008 I don't normally speak out on issues like this, but I feel I have to. Virgin Media, one of the big UK ISPs has stated they will start charging companies that have high bandwidth services, and if they don't pay, they will limit Virgin Medias bandwidth to them. There has been a great deal of dicsussion on Net Neutrality, but Virgin Media are the first company to publicly declare they will do this. Even if you don't live in the UK, even if you aren't a Virgin Media customer, we all need to speak up now, as if Virgin Media do this, it will be a sign to all the other ISPs that their customers will let this happen, and then it will be too late.
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As a Virgin Media customer - I feel this is outright wrong. I pay them for my bandwidth. It is their responsibility to provide that bandwidth to me. I don't expect the websites I visit to pay my ISP for bandwidth use - they already pay their hosts/ISPs for that.
If Virgin Media bring this in (or a certain other "service" they're also planning, known as "Phorm"), I'll be changing ISP pretty promptly, and letting them know in no uncertain terms why.
If Virgin Media bring this in (or a certain other "service" they're also planning, known as "Phorm"), I'll be changing ISP pretty promptly, and letting them know in no uncertain terms why.
I too am currently a Virgin Media customer, although not for long if they don't back down on this.
I personally see nothing wrong with Phorm, but this is the first I have heard of it, so I may change my mind when I learn more.
I personally see nothing wrong with Phorm, but this is the first I have heard of it, so I may change my mind when I learn more.
posted by: jocopro on Fri, 4/18 06:47 AM EDT
I was a virgin media customer before I moved to outside of the VM area. (I moved from Newcastle to a village near Durham.) Virgin was (is) one of my favourite companies before this they have not done anything at all which I didn't like.
I am a geek (like you couldn't of guessed.) who likes to watch Sci-fi but because of only having one "working" TV in the house I am unable to watch a lot of it on TV...I currently rely on the iPlayer, 4OD and "other" services.*
(*only if it isn't out in the UK.)
I am a geek (like you couldn't of guessed.) who likes to watch Sci-fi but because of only having one "working" TV in the house I am unable to watch a lot of it on TV...I currently rely on the iPlayer, 4OD and "other" services.*
(*only if it isn't out in the UK.)
Update:
When I moved house at the end of 2008, I would have been looking for a place that had cable, but because of this issue, I didn't want cable, and the house I went with didn't have cable as an option (it is a new build and Virgin Media were too cheap to put cable in when asked.)
I phoned up Virgin Media to cancel, and gave net neutrality as the reason, thinking I would have to explain it to the sales person, turns out she knew what I was talking about, and even agreed with my view...but still tried to convince me to stay.
When I moved house at the end of 2008, I would have been looking for a place that had cable, but because of this issue, I didn't want cable, and the house I went with didn't have cable as an option (it is a new build and Virgin Media were too cheap to put cable in when asked.)
I phoned up Virgin Media to cancel, and gave net neutrality as the reason, thinking I would have to explain it to the sales person, turns out she knew what I was talking about, and even agreed with my view...but still tried to convince me to stay.
posted by: jocopro on Thu, 6/11 08:15 AM EDT
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