Hooray Ed Vaizey killed Net Neutrality!... Oh wait.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11773574

So, our beloved Mr Vaizey has done the unmentionable and agreed to stratify the internet.

The EU has also backed traffic management but with greater transparency to ensure the internet remains "open" - something that will soon be enshrined in UK law.

Mr Vaizey argues that most ISPs already carried out traffic management "to ensure the smooth running of their networks" without any impact on competition or consumer rights.
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Greater transparency? Why not full transparency?
Right so, we start off with a little opacity, then we make it totally impossible to tell what's being throttled and what isn't? That's usually the game.
ISPs and NSPs carrying out traffic management on the own networks is their business alone I would have thought.

In his speech, he argues that the continued quality of internet services in the UK is under threat due to the rapid expansion of mobile and wireless networks and the "massive investment" it needed.
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Excuse me? The government made huge amounts of money from the sale of 3G licenses. The revenue for this (£22.47 billion in 2000) would be sufficient to run Fibre To The Home for the majority of the nation (OFCOM report involving BT, VM and other players set this at £29 billion), let alone what it could provide through wireless services for the same amount of money.
Not to mention the amount of dark / unlit fibre across the country stalled significantly after the Dot Com bubble burst, just because the government and industry have been lazy for the past decade does not mean you can now punish consumers.

As a result, ISPs had to be free to experiment with new ways of raising revenue - provided customers were clear about what they were buying.
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Like 'Unlimited Downloads'. Yeah, fat ****ing chance.

He also suggests that content makers could be charged for the first time for the use of the ISP's networks - provided they too were clear about what they were getting.
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Last time I checked this was covered in peering agreements?

If it wasn't for Wills and Katie on the front page, I'd expect this to be the big news of the day. What a sham.

Edit: Thread over at GD - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18208287
Maybe we could keep this thread for the more relevant aspects when ISP's responses come out?
 
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From what I understand I don't think it really matters either. So your ISP starts charging more if you want to watch iPlayer? Then you change ISPs.

If they all put the price up or restrict high bandwidth services then it is obviously required to stay profitable and the money is needed for network upgrades.

What is potentiallly changing is the deal between content providers and ISPs.

Content providers could start exploiting ISPs I suppose. But then other than skys football we don't have any monoplies there either so there is usually more than one source.


More of an issue in the USA where they have cable companies with monopolies. LOL America.
 
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