Re:What a non-neutral 'Net looks like, UK-style
by cturner on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:18PM
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There's an easy market solution for people who want traffic that this ISP is throttling - change your damn ISP. Notice that this solution involves no posturing politicians, no complex legislation, no costly enforcement, no restrictions on business. It's simple and effective. bt will quickly get the reputation as being the ISP for n00bs and will see themselves lose business, others will have an example in the flesh to disuade them from trying it on.
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Re:What a non-neutral 'Net looks like, UK-style
by Kejistan on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:24PM
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I'm not sure what its like in the UK, but where I'm at in the US there are two ISPs that service my area, and both offer very similar plans. "Change your damn ISP" only works if there is another ISP that offers something different in your area.
Re:What a non-neutral 'Net looks like, UK-style
by dazzawazza on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @01:01PM
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Where I live in London I have access to close to 100 ISPs that will take my cash. Where my parents live in the sticks there are two. One is BT who have to provide them a service but it's severely restricted (in bandwidth terms) and the other is Demon who are respectable enough.
It's not the open market place the governments market models predict.