I’ve just “thumped up” this BBC Article on StumbleUpon, so hopefully this news will spread quickly.
?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8424401.stm
For the UK to have super fast broadband, is a big step forward for digital Britain – but that’s not why I want this topic’s interest to spread quickly. On the contrary – it’s a message to the current ISP’s in the UK to get their service in check!!
Virgin Media currently offer the only fibre optic network covering the highest percentage of the UK. They now offer an XL package which is “up to” 50MB, which is (at the moment) uncapped, un-metred and unlimited.
Frustratingly, VM have employed a Traffic Management Policy: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html
This details the “allowance”, or rather the constraints, VM puts on its full paying customers.
Yet, VM still advertise for new customers for their 50MB package??? I don’t understand this? The Traffic Management article begins with the heading: “We don’t like traffic jams”. Oh’really!!?
If your network is currently over congested, to the point you have to reduce the service you provide to long standing customers, then surely you don’t have the capacity to enroll new customers??? It angers me so much, I think a FB group will be created but* I’m hoping that BT’s great news will force VM to re-consider their unfair ways – and remove the TM policy and return to how Blueyonder once managed the network.
Only time will tell. 2012 is just a little over 2 years away – clocks ticking Virgin Media. 
No news yet on what BT’s price plan will be, or whether they will also use Traffic control. Hopefully, it’ll be an open playing field!!!
* Update: Here’s a FB Group lol http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=63826810720&ref=search&sid=610872616.860022177..1&v=info
Update 2 – Just found out, yes i know it’s 6 months late, that VM are trialling 200MB Broadband in Kent. Hopefully this will be the end of the Traffic Management Policy!
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