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[PSUs]| Tuesday 13th June 2006 |
ISPs feel p2p pressure
3:12PM, Tuesday 13th June 2006
Companies that attempt to reduce their own bandwidth costs by using p2p technology could force Internet service providers to introduce pay-as-you-go broadband charging as a matter of course.
ADSL Guide notes that firms, including the BBC and BSkyB, have raised the prospect of shifting the burden of content delivery from their own servers to users' computers.
Currently most users have unmetered broadband access, so they are unlikely to be concerned about the additional burden that this will place on their bandwidth, but ISPs will face in an increase in traffic and higher costs.
'This "legal" version of p2p does however cause some great concerns to ISPs as they see this as an attempt to offload the traffic costs onto their network,' the website says.
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