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Old 14-03-2009, 16:22   #319
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Re: Legal action taken against Virgin Media throttling practices

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Originally Posted by Mike_A View Post
IBen, PHORM is only one aspect of DPI, and DPI is only one aspect of data interception. Virgin must intercept data to throttle.
No they don't!

The only thing they do is use inbuilt functions of the CMTS equipment to monitor usage. It doesn't monitor what that data is, just how much is passing through.

It is like me standing on the side of the road and counting traffic. I don't know what is in the traffic, who the traffic belongs to, where it came from or where it is going, nor can I interfere with it. All I know is how much there is

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Incidentally, Virgin had and were playing about with PHORM during the period to which my dispute relates.
And in that you are very very wrong. Virgin have not 'played about' with PHORM apart from on a seperate isolated test network. There has been 0% live testing of Phorm on the VM network - and will not be without consent from customers.
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