UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality

Barence writes "The UK's two biggest ISPs have openly admitted they'd give priority to certain internet apps or services if companies paid them to do so. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on net neutrality, senior executives from BT and TalkTalk said they would be happy to put selected apps into the fast lane, at the expense of their rivals. Asked specifically if TalkTalk would afford more bandwidth to YouTube than the BBC's iPlayer if Google was prepared to pay, the company's executive director of strategy and regulation, Andrew Heaney, argued it would be 'perfectly normal business practice to discriminate between them.' Meanwhile, BT's Simon Milner said: 'We absolutely could see a situation when content or app providers may want to pay BT for quality of service above best efforts,' although he added BT had never received such an approach."

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It's perfectly legal - and I agree

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The UK's two biggest ISPs have openly admitted they'd give priority to certain internet apps or services if companies paid them to do so

This is what Google does too. A business pays cash to get a chance at being displayed on Google's first page of search results. And nobody raises a finger...right?

Re:What's with this app horsedookie?

[Hognoxious]

If app had meant, from time immemorial, what Patoot (1027544) claims, there'd have been no need to coin the term applet to describe a mini java program downloaded from a website; the suffix would be redundant.

He's of those arrogant little twerps who speaks English pretty well for a non-native, but vastly underestimates the difference between that and perfection. The icing on the cake is that he always gets a major strop on when you call him on it.