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redeagle · Apr 20, 2008

Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is â€œA Load of Bollocksâ€
Written by enigmax on April 13, 2008

The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality â€œa load of bollocksâ€ and claiming heâ€™s already doing deals to deliver some peopleâ€™s content faster than others. If you arenâ€™t prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says heâ€™ll put you in the Internet â€œbus laneâ€.

Net neutrality really is the hot topic at the moment. Ignited by the Comcast fiasco, the concept of net neutrality has certainly been brought into the mainstream. Most ISPs are never quite forthcoming about their throttling, capping and otherwise interfering behavior, but that crowd certainly doesnâ€™t include the CEO of Virgin Media, the UKâ€™s second largest ISP.

In an interview with the Royal Television Societyâ€™s Television magazine, far from covering up their intentions, Virgin Mediaâ€™s new incoming CEO Neil Berkett - who joined the Virgin Media Board just a few days ago - has launched an attack on the ideas and principles behind net neutrality.

â€œThis net neutrality thing is a load of bollocks,â€ he said, adding that Virgin is already in the process of doing deals to speed up the traffic of certain media providers.

With around 3.5 million customers in the UK, and already traffic shaping due to lack of capacity, itâ€™s a sobering thought that at the behest of â€œcontent providersâ€ with deep pockets, Virgin is prepared to speed up their traffic, which would presumably have a negative impact on those at the bottom of the ISPâ€™s priority list, namely bandwidth hungry file-sharers.

Berkett then turned on the BBC and their iPlayer service, telling them - and other public broadcasters like them - that if they donâ€™t pay a premium to gain faster access to Virgin Mediaâ€™s customers, their service would be put into â€œbus lanesâ€.

It just shows that some ISPs are happy to throttle just about anyone in the name of profit, itâ€™s just that most arenâ€™t as open about it as Mr Berkett.
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http://stopvirgin.movielol.org/

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