BT, the UK's largest broadband provider to individuals and ISP's is cutting the speed of iPlayer and youtube streams. There have also been rumours about throttling the ISP's who rent lines from BT. So even if I am a good Sky broadband customer, I can lose out because BT does not like Sky. I hear the same issues of limited bandwidth in the States as I do in the UK. Priority connection going to main content provided by cable or Telecom players.
Why do we sign up and pay for broadband access? Generally not for the services provided provided by the ISP alone. We want BBC iPlayer, Facebook, Youtube and whatever web services we want when we want it. That's why we sign up for broadband. So if BT becomes unhappy with Google, Facebook or Twitter will they start to limit our access speed to those services? C'mon broadband providers, are you going to make our lives on the web so miserably slow that we resort to mobile mifi? I wonder if Xbox live is next?
