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Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality Is Already Gone

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-not-your-internet-sonny dept.

Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is "A Load of Bollocks". Anyone here been shaken down by their Internet Service Provider? "The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality 'a load of bollocks' and claiming he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane.'"

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  1. Finally, some honesty. by urbanriot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Finally a company is honest enough to admit that net neutrality doesn't exist. Here in Canada, almost every ISP is throttling torrents, throttling DSL 'nodes', circumventing advertisements for their own, prioritizing certain web pages, and worse. This is rarely publicized until some intelligent people discover it and bring it to light and since there's no rules or laws, it's perfectly acceptable by everyone but the consumer.

  2. Re:Unfortunately... by pdbaby · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, old bean, this is the United Kingdom we're talking about in this article :-)

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  3. Re:This is Hilarious by MoonBuggy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pleased overall with my Entanet DSL. All the resellers seem to offer the same price packages, so I use UKFSN (no association with them other than as a customer) who use all of their profits to fund UK free software projects. The business packages are reasonably priced and seem to be the closest thing you can get to a direct, neutral, non 'managed' connection these days. They also offer genuine unlimited packages, although the prices might be a bit of a shock to people used to the so-called unlimited offerings from other ISPs.

    The one thing that I would fault them on is their data transfer allowance system. Basically the penalty fees for going a few GB over the limit will add about 50% to that month's bill.