Comments on: BT Accused of Throttling iPlayer Video

By: BT Boosts Fiber Intake With $1.49B Plan

BT Boosts Fiber Intake With $1.49B Plan — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:24:15 +0000

[...] between the BT network and networks in the U.S. However, that hasn’t stopped BT from some bad behavior on the network management side. Unlike Australia’s future fiber to the home network, [...]

By: It’s Captastic! Cable One Embraces Congestion Pricing – GigaOM

It’s Captastic! Cable One Embraces Congestion Pricing – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:14:49 +0000

[...] still relatively rare. BT recently got in trouble with subscribers for slowing its speeds on video between the hours of 5 p.m. and midnight. Overall, these pricing changes and caps are both a way to manage traffic and increase revenue for [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:36:41 +0000

This is not the first time BT have slowed down customers connections. However, they seem to miss the point that the world is moving down the route of higher bandwidth technologies.

It hits people that dont understand the difference and buy their broadband based on price, only to find it does not work as they expected and really they should be saying in their advertising "not suiteable for such things as iplayer video streaming between 5pm and 12am".

I have always avoided BT Broadband because they are far too expensive and I know that they mess about with bandwidth so you dont get what you expected to get.

Come on BT do some research and you will find that primary school children could tell you that were are all going to be watching video more often.

By: The disruption is beginning… « Musings on Tech

The disruption is beginning… « Musings on Tech — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:19:16 +0000

[...] The BBC reports that subscribers to BT’s lowest-tier broadband plan should be getting speeds of 8 megabits per second, but that speed is being cut to as low as less than 1 megabyte per second between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and midnight (prime video watching time!). – newteevee.com [...]

By: Vid-Biz: DTV, iPhone, BT

Vid-Biz: DTV, iPhone, BT — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:25:59 +0000

[...] should pony up for the amount of bandwidth they consume on its network. (GigaOM) Last week, BT was caught throttling the BBC iPlayer in the [...]

By: BT Talks Up Plans to Charge Video Providers

BT Talks Up Plans to Charge Video Providers — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:40:03 +0000

[...] last week was caught throttling connections to the BBC iPlayer to less than 1 megabyte per second between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and midnight for subscribers of [...]