Virgin Media is putting Net Neutrality to the test

In the UK, Virgin Media is currently in the process of designing a super-fast broadband service that will allow the delivery of informative Internet to its consumers at an unbelievable rate. This will be done sometime in the late 2009 year and possibly perfected in 2010. This new service is designed to not only deliver fast, but to block torrent sites and other P2P (peer-to-peer) services. Should this service go according to plan, this blogger says, "Will cause the ultimate challenge of how to keep the Internet 'neutral' to be lost...FOREVER! (DUN DUN DUUUUN)" However, there is one small, but at the same time, large aspect that works against Virgin Media's "No-longer Neutral Net" system, and that is the cost of which it will take in order for consumers to use the service. The article reads that it will cost consumers 51 pounds! (about 72 dollars!) per month to use this service, which means that Virgin Media will either have to lower its prices and give a less promising product, or stay as it is and hope and pray that the majority of the world's population becomes exceedingly rich by 2009/2010. Either way, this allows for more debates on whether or not to make the Internet neutral to all or not.

Information found at: http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/12/17/net-neutrality-to-be-tested-by-virgin-media/