P2P (peer to peer) traffic is seldom out of the news either because its most popular use is for pirating copyright material or because ISPs are throttling it to reduce the impact on their network.
In the USA a bit of deep academic thinking has gone into seeking ways of addressing the traffic issue, while potentially
BT have announced a wholesale reduction in Datastream pricing of £1 per month. The change, effective as of June 1st, means that ISP’s will now be charged £74.60 per year per Datastream line. The announcement to Ofcom can be found here.
In addition to this, BT’s new capacity charging product goes live tomorrow (May 28th). Until