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| UKperspective | Mar 14 2009, 08:54 AM |
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I have personally never witnessed a notice saying "this content unavailable in your country" from any of my UK ISPs. However it is well known in the computer industry that the explosion of video content is overwhelming the bandwidth of the creaking UK infrastructure. All the major UK Broadcasting Companies have, or are about to have iPlayers to catch up with their TV programmes. This is causing so much increase to the internet traffic that ISPs in some cases are throttling back the connection speeds of heavy users so that the service doesn't degrade for the users who are more moderate. You could argue that all this is a government plan, but working in the computer industry I can tell you that the problem is more to do with the exponential growth of users demanding video content. Remember that most people had extremely slow dial up connections only 10 years ago, broadband connections have only been common in the last 7 or 8 years. And now that video content is being pushed on mobile phones as well, the data throughput required from the web servers to the end user is putting the internet at melting point. Especially when you consider that most connections are still carried to consumers' property on bellwire which is basically technology from the 1800s. |
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