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Old 15-09-2008, 19:33   #350
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Re: Application Throttling/Management

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis View Post
obviously they need to pay to upgrade capacity etc. but my point was the costs are not comparable to other isps who apply this kind of traffic shaping especially when you consider the revenue VM get as well.

The only conclusion I have come to is that investment in the backhaul has become significantly constrained in favour of profits and subsidising tv losses hence the need to traffic shape, time will tell if the introduction of docsis3 eases the need to shape (it should do), if they protocol shape then its probably just to cram as many customers as possible onto the service.
And the puffa-elephant sized debts...
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