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Virgin Broadband offers unlimited downloads on all our broadband packages, which is great if you like to download music and movies or just don't want to worry about monthly allowances or caps. However, if you download a lot, as part of our Acceptable Use Policy, you need to know that we operate a Traffic Management policy.
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http://www.virgin.net/allyours/faqs/index.shtml (non-cable FAQs).
I suspect the BBC has duff information; I download probably 10x that amount per month (so I would comfortably exceed 2.7GB every week) and I've never been shaped, managed, throttled or disconnected in any way. Not so as I'd notice, at any rate...
I wonder whether they pressed VM to estimate the level at which traffic management might kick in, and then ran with that as a 'limit'?
Alternatively, of course, they may just be using ancient data, when I first got Virgin.net ADSL there were some pretty restrictive download limits, especially on the cheaper packages.