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The problem here is no regulation is stopping this rubbish, it could be argued VM have been slow on doing this as already the majority of adsl isps traffic shape. Because they get away with it then it becomes a disadvantage to not traffic shape customers because you then have higher costs over your competitors. (which is cheaper buying capacity or throttling speeds).

So the uk broadband market, the highest speeds for sale but only for fast web browsing as anything that uses sustained bandwidth is tried to be throttled back. Sky is probably the only major isp currently not employing throttling.