Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality Is Already Gone

Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is "A Load of Bollocks". Anyone here been shaken down by their Internet Service Provider? "The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality 'a load of bollocks' and claiming he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane.'"

Bus Lane?

[WombatDeath]

"If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane'."

Let me see if I've got this right - if I don't pay him money, he'll put me in the subsidized lane that contains no other traffic?

Errm, OK. Much obliged!

Bus lane analogy

[jrumney]

If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane'.

Isn't the whole point of bus lanes to keep the buses moving in rush hour traffic? Not the best analogy for a Virgin wannabe-mobster to be using to coerce content providers to cough up.

Virgin?

[Soko]

I doubt it.

"You wanna do it without a condom? It'll cost you..."

Checklist for Slashdot

[OMNIpotusCOM]

Ok, summary and title have virgin, internet, balls (bollocks), and media in it. Alright, all we need is MS, conspiracy and goatse before we have and uberstory.

No, I'm New Here

[New Here]

No, I'm New Here

Re:That sound you hear...

[FoolsGold]

Don't be hating the wet string, it probably will have more bandwidth than what Virgin Media provides.

Re:That sound you hear...

[Anonymous Coward]

I just read the headline...
Why would Media hire a virgin to run their company?

Clearly because the more traditional use of Media whores just hadn't worked out for them.

Re:That sound you hear...

[dwater]

I like to call it a 'fork'...and the 'American Spirit' was a bug that crept in after the fork, and, fortunately, hasn't been merged into the main branch - yet, though it seems to be having an appropriate adverse effect - merge by osmosis, you might say.

Yeah, yeah. Flamebate. I know (or is it a troll - I find it difficult to tell the different).

Re:That sound you hear...

[steevc]

I have 20Mb Virgin cable broadband having been on ntl dial-up and then various BB speeds from 512 upwards. When we built a new house we just got the cable hook-up and so do not have a BT line. That means that switching to ADSL will cost me a bit more up front to get a line.

I'm reasonably happy with Virgin in that it generally just works and the speed is okay. I can't see I see much difference from 4Mb to 20Mb for general surfing. The upload rate of 768kb/s seems a bit crap.

If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane.'"

but don't bus lanes allow you to bypass the traffic jams?

Re:That sound you hear...

[dwater]

> Performance depends on what you want to do.

Indeed, and I said fairly specifically what I wanted to do - that is to see which of a car and motorcycle would win going round the Top Gear track, if you had to choose each vehicle with a budget of 10000ukp.

Was that not clear? I think it was fairly clear, at least.

I didn't mention people and/or luggage. You can assume 1 person (the driver) and no luggage, since they're the minimum.

If you want to have many people and lots of luggage in your race, then you're welcome, but I'd appreciate it if you would leave my race alone.

Thank you.