BT Caught Throttling BBC's iPlayer On Broadband Option 1

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Traffic shaping is a very murky and grey area. While most ISPs have in effect implemented traffic shaping systems to manage their broadband services, some employ different approaches to BT. Sky for example doesn't have any fair usage policy and no download limits, same goes for Be or O2. Virgin Media's traffic shaping is so lax that it would still allow you to download tens of Gigabytes per week.

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