The New Traffic Management Transparency Code

Question

I'm hoping that at some point this month (in April),  BT will make some kind of official statement to the effect that the existing 300GB allowance on Infinity Option 2 has been removed. Which means anyone going over 300GB (uploads + downloads) in a single month will no longer be penalised. This doesn't mean that the heaviest users are let off the hook, as I understand it, even after the 300GB allowance is scrapped you can still be classified as a heavy user and be penalised for it. The question that people will be asking is this ...
"At what point above 300 GB will I be classified as a "Heavy User", or "How Much can I safely  download during Peak Periods
before being classified as a "Heavy User" ?
This also implies BT will probably be using traffic managment as the way to control bandwidth demands on the network; We won't know exactly what those traffic Management policies will be until the end of June 2011, when BT along with a number of other Broadband providers launch a new traffic management transparency code ...
The new voluntary code includes three commitments:
1. Firstly to provide more information to consumers about what traffic management takes place, for what purpose and with what impact.
2. Secondly to comply with a set of good practice principles on providing information to consumer that is:  understandable; appropriate; accessible; current; comparable; and verifiable.
3. Thirdly to publish a common Key Facts Indicator (KFI) table, summarising the traffic management practices they use for each broadband product they currently market, which will be available on ISPs’ websites by end of June 2011.
http://www.broadbanduk.org/content/view/479/7/

Answer 1

sahotaquack wrote:
Thats because i asked if i will still be restricted if i go over the 300GB allowance per month. Everyone knows we will still be restricted with the p2p at peak times. You seem to be so anti-bt, why are you even on these forums if you hate them so much?
Don't start turning this into an issue of me hating BT, this is an issue of your reluctance to face the facts.
I'm not anti BT in any way shape or form, and very happy with my Infinity connection. You on the other hand  don't seem to be very happy with yours. You see, I have little patience for someone who repeatedly posts the same question in the forums, and then because he doesn't like the answer, reposts the same question in another thread.
I responded to your question here:
http://community.bt.com/t5/BB-Speed-Connection-Iss​ues/BT-TO-SCRAP-300GB-LIMIT/m-p/165579#M70898
you obviously don't like my answer or don't believe my answer, either way I dont really care. But you then continue on to say that you had called BT and are told by someone at BT that ...
"I confirm to you that, from April 2011 we’ll be removing this fair usage policy for BT Total Broadband Option 3 and BT Infinity Option 2. The Broadband speed will not be restricted once this action is taken. However, as I am not able to confirm the exact date to you, I would request you to wait till the end of April, 2011. "
and it would appear that you like this answer from BT so much that you are forced to post it in a different thread I had started regarding the traffic management transparancy code. And once again I tell you that whoever gave you that information is wrong.
Are you beginning to see a pattern here, let's just end this here & now. If you would like to believe that after the 300GB allowance is removed that you can download over 300 GB and remain untouched by traffic management go right ahead, because at some point above 300GB you will trip traffic management & have your speed cut. END OF STORY, bye bye.