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Story: Online TV blamed for choking broadband networks

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You what?

Sorry but that's complete garbage.
What is Tiscali whingeing about? iPlayer and 4OD can't use much more than 15-20k/s. I can get 850k/s on my 8mb Sky broadband (IPStream not LLU), so around 50 people would be able to watch different content on my connection alone!
They should stop being childish and either pressurise BT to give them more bandwidth for the same money or raise their prices for users of these "high bandwidth" services (who admittedly may then choose a proper ISP that doesn't bitch as much).

If there genuinely is a bandwidth problem then the cause lies squarely with BT who as the major backbone provider have failed to keep up with demand.
According to last years ITIF study, Britain comes ninth out of the 16 countries studied with an average speed of 2.4mbps.
That's lower than Poland and Slovakia.

A decade and a half of no investment in the infrastructure will do that but hey, at least the shareholders are happy.
They are finally having to bite the bullet and upgrade to the 21cn but it is actually more like a 20th century network. Some countries already have 100mb fibre to the customers' door..

And sure, we pay the license fee, but this is added value. The BBC are buying new equipment and leasing more bandwidth to deliver the content from their end, why should they then pay the ISP's to deliver it? That's like Jiffy paying the post office extra to deliver their bags because they don't fit in the letter box and the postie has to knock the door to give it to you. Get a grip.

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