ISPs likely to be even more unhappy as BBC launches live TV streamed over Internet
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We’re used to the notion that most essential services in the UK have a pronounced lean to them, in metaphorical terms at least—just like the famous tower of Pisa, not quite falling down but definitely not altogether right. The trains are but one example, another being the NHS. But can we expect the country’s Internet infrastructure to well and truly collapse, now that the Beeb has made its TV channels available to view live on the Internet? Many Internet Service Providers ( ISPs) would say yes. They’ve been issuing dire warnings and predictions for many months over the impact of the BBC’s on-demand video-and-radio service, iPlayer.
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Silent calls are an offence and upset to most people’s ears, including my own. They’re only punishable by fines in the UK if the number of silent calls made by a company reaches three per cent of its total call volume. 08004082680 is the latest number to be calling our home, for several days now and sometimes as often as every half hour, from 8am all the way through to mid- to late-evening.
It turns out there’s no point complaining to our phone service provider, BT, which is what the supposedly regulatory body OFCOM (in truth, as limp as a well-weathered lettuce) recommends you do in the first instance. Why? Because BT is one of a number of high-profile, big business clients of 2Touch, the offending company. It’s like finding out the Food Standards Agency to which you complain about a rancid restaurant meal is run by the chef who cooked up your dose of food poisoning.
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