Virgin Media's Traffic Management Policy advertised as "We don't like traffic jams" is rendering normal Internet use in 2008 for customers virtually unusable between the hours of 4PM to 9PM. Being a Virgin Media customer myself i thought it was about time we covered Virgin's Traffic Management Policy and showed exactly why the imposed limits are unrealistically low for a major percentage of their customer base. [...more]
Virgin Media has released a statement today denying reports that it had allegedly struck a deal with the British Phonographic Industry, Virgin Media acknowledged that it had discussed a 'three strikes and you’re out' policy with the music industry but that no commitment to the scheme was made. [...more]
Virgin Media The UK's only cable broadband operator is to implement a "three strikes and your out" counter measure system against customers who obtain illegal media content over their network, Virgin Media are introducing this counter measure in partnership with the BPI (British Phonographic Industry). The same type of system was used by Tiscali and the BPI last summer but quickly collapsed after the two could not decide how to share the cost's of the project. [...more]
As our regular readers will recall around a month or so ago we wrote two articles "UK Goverment Petition: Virgin Media falsely advertising unlimited broadband and guilty of network oversubscribing" & "Virgin Media Throttles Broadband: The True Real World Usage Figures About Their Broadband Service" based around Virgin Media's Bandwidth Throttling policy. P2PViNE decided to report Virgin Media To the Advertising Standards Agency for false Advertising Claims after the first article and today we got a reply. [...more]
After writing the first article about the Government petition that has started to defend Broadband Consumers i though i might follow it up with a few real world usage examples about virgin media. [...more]
As we all know broadband companies are throttling services more and more these days, but could some like Virgin Media be misleading their customers and breaking the law. [...more]
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