Virgin Media clarifies its stance on traffic management
Virgin Media, the UK cable ISP has replied to the post published in cableforum.co.uk which states that the cable broadband provider is all set to launch a new application to target P2P based traffic on its cable network. The post says that Virgin Media have been trialing application throttling/management in selected areas and have been [...]
Virgin Media is to launch trials with new traffic management policies
The cable broadband provider, Virgin Media is to bring further changes in its traffic management polices that will affect the customers of its three broadband products – broadband M, broadband L and broadband XL. The earlier traffic management policy announced by Virgin Media was taking into account just the downloads made during the peak hours, [...]
Broadband customers to send e-petition to the government
It looks like the broadband customers in UK are caught between the ISPs who are run by business motives and the high-bandwidth services which are reluctant to contribute to the internet costs. Most ISPs advertise higher speeds but they rarely deliver those speeds, especially during peak hours (between 4pm to 1am). Customers, on the other [...]
New traffic management policy in early 2008
Most broadband internet providers in the UK do traffic shaping to prevent the heavy users from taking undue advantage of unlimited packages. As all uncapped packages offer unlimited downloads, the fair usage policy often puts some kind of cap at least on the usage during peak hours. What happens when a few customers indulge in [...]
Virgin Media introduces new traffic management policy
Virgin Media, the largest cable broadband provider in the UK is implementing a new policy to restrict the service of the heaviest users who, according to its findings, constitute just 5 percent of total customers. These 5 percent customers are reported to download as much as 3 GB during the peak hours (between 4pm and [...]
