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BBC's iPlayer Chief Pushes Tiered Charging For ISPs

Posted by timothy on from the if-isp-bills-looked-like-phone-bills dept.

rs232 writes with a link to a story at The Register which begins: "The executive in charge of the BBC iPlayer has suggested that internet users could be charged £10 per month extra on their broadband bill for higher quality streaming." The article suggests (perhaps optimistically) that "after years of selling consumers pipes, not what they carry, [tiered, site-specific pricing] would be tough to pull off."

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  1. ISPs: Just like new broadcast stations by wsidegangstarr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    By doing this the BBC would opt to become one of the first (and largest) players in European tiered-web. The control that they would command could possibly turn British ISPs into the broadcast stations of the days of old. I'm sure they would reserve the right to not offer their services to ISPs that didn't pay-up from increased rates.