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BBC: British ISP BT Throttling Video Download Speeds

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 3, 2009 - 12:28pm.

London - The largest broadband ISP in Britain, BT, has been accused of throttling subscribers' download speeds at peak times, particularly for users of video services like YouTube and the BBC iPlayer, the BBC reported. Sources told the BBC that subscribers to BT's Option 1 broadband package, which promises up to 8Mbps, were seeing speeds for the iPlayer slowed to 700kbps at peak times. BT told the BBC that its terms and conditions state that the company does in fact "limit the speed of all video streaming to 896Kbps...during peak times only."

Analysis: UK Online Video Traffic Up 178% Year Over Year

Authored by Robin Goad on March 27, 2008 - 5:52am.

UK Internet traffic to online video websites increased by 178% between February 2007 and 2008. A Hitwise custom category of the top 25 video websites in the UK accounted for 2.22% of all UK Internet visits in February 2008, equivalent for one in every 45 Internet visits last month.

BBC Taps Adobe to Offer On-Demand Streaming TV Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 16, 2007 - 2:49pm.

San Jose, Calif. - The BBC said on Tuesday that it has partnered with Adobe Systems to make its free "catch-up" TV service, the BBC iPlayer, available as a streaming service by the end of the year. The on-demand streaming service, available across PC, Mac and Linux platforms to U.K. residents only, will be offered in addition to the TV show download service currently offered by the BBC.