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Story: BT wants BBC to pay for iPlayer

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BT drop the ball

BT have been grumbling for months about the added traffic that iPlayer is imposing on them.
Their option 1 package comes with a 10Gb cap for £15 a month. What difference does it make if that is 10Gb of video from iPlayer or 10Gb of other assorted data? Surely the allowance is what matters, not what it's made up of?
Their customers have paid for that allowance only to find that BT aren't happy with them accessing certain types of data and have throttled their access to it. If I were a BT customer I'd be very annoyed about this.

Now I admit that this doesn't affect me personally, I stopped using BT as an ISP a long time ago and would rather eat my own eyeballs than go back to them.
Tying people to a minimum 18 month contract and then constantly changing the terms of it is not a business model that I would ever adopt or indeed agree to.
I use a proper ISP which I pay a bit more for but I have the security of a short term contract and complete freedom to use my generous data allowance in any way I see fit.
This is the way forward. Not BT's approach of selling it cheap and then bleating about how it's financially unsustainable. That's just retarded and the only losers are the BT customers who are for the most part tied into a contract they can't get out of no matter what changes BT make to it. Mark my words, this is only the tip of the iceberg. BT are sounding increasingly desperate and they WILL take more and more liberties with your service.

Vote with your feet. Take your money elsewhere at the end of your contract and leave this bumbling leviathan to sink into the stygian depths of ineptitude from whence it came.

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