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UK ISP Imposes Download Limits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 9, 2003 @10:47AM from the new-definition-of-unlimited dept.

Richard_at_work writes "The BBC news site is reporting that NTL have announced it will be imposing 1GB download limits per day for its users. As you can guess, reactions have not been mild :) One thing to note, NTL has said that they will only be persuing persistent offenders, so i guess they understand you cant track your usage to the byte! Also with NTL, they appear to ban the usage of VPNs, citing that their service is for resedential use only. Does this mean I can't email work now?"

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Re:Linux? by garcia · 2003-02-09 11:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

and? They don't want you doing exactly that. They want to attract Mom and Pop people who use their broadband for nothing more than they used their 28.8k for... Surfing the web, checking email.

Broadband isn't as profitable when you have 10% of your userbase downloading 1GB+ a day when 90% of the other people are downloading less than 1GB a month.