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OOPS: BT Admits to Fast Tracking Some Internet Traffic

By james_fudge

While net neutrality is all the rage in America, Europe - and specifically the United Kingdom - don't seem to be all that concerned with discussing it. But a recent interview with broadband service provider BT might change all that.. Speaking to BBC Click, BT Retail's commercial director Jon Hurry said that the company gives its television content priority among its web services. 

A separate discussion called the prioritization of its TV an "internet bus lane" – in other words, reserved bandwidth. BT argues that this gives everyone -even those with slower connections - solid and steady web-based television.

First, here is what John Hurry told BBC Click:

"[A]t the moment with our TV service, BT Vision, we deliver entertainment content, video, at peak time to consumers via our network and we prioritise the traffic in order to be able to do this."

A further inquiry by the BBC to BT didn't clarify anything - excerpt from the BBC blog post about it: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 17, 2010 (boomark / email).