Net neutrality takes a huge step closer to becoming law in both Europe and the US.

A new BitTorrent program could be good for consumers and even, for a change, internet service providers. The news comes as UK ISP Entanet prepares to implement traffic-shaping measures – citing the heavy demand put on its network by peer-to-peer file-sharers as one of the reasons.

Outlaw.com concludes that net neutrality has no status in UK law.

Virgin Media are proposing to marginally increase the coverage of their cable broadband network and to increase daily traffic allowances.

Virgin Media have announced a localised trial in Blackpool, Preston and Wigan of a revised traffic management policy for their cable broadband customers. As with the current system this will target the heaviest 5% peak time users and reduce their connection throughput if a daily download or upload GByte threshold is exceeded.
The revised scheme, which [...]