Take that, BT: Vodafone and BSkyB mull over broadband tie-up - report BSkyB and Vodafone have reportedly discussed the possibility of teaming up on a high-speed broadband service. According to the Sunday Times (paid subscription required), a number of "high-level" confabs have already taken place between the pay-TV company and the mobile carrier. However, senior sources have told the newspaper …
I would not want to go anywhere near any ISP that has any involvement with Vodafone. Remember that Vodafone is one of the ISPs that has in the past allowed a US company access to the web browsing habits of their users (and the Bluecoat product used appeared to repeat the visits made by their users too).
Where to begin?...
1) I never specified just search history. I was referring to each and every single HTTP request made by Vodafone customers that didn't involve SSL. This is the sort of area where choice of ISP could very well make a difference.
2) It's still no excuse to be actively sharing personal information with others when there is zero need to do so, nor does it excuse the shadow visits by Bluecoat that could in some instances be seen as replay attacks.
'B..b..b..but everybody is doing it!!!' is a rather childish response and I fail to see how that justifies in any way what Vodafone has done in the past.
"'B..b..b..but everybody is doing it!!!' is a rather childish response and I fail to see how that justifies in any way what Vodafone has done in the past."
Wasn't justifying anything, merely pointing out that no matter what UK based ISP you use the US will and do have access to most of your traffic anyway.
Saying someone is making a childish response whilst failing to understand the comment itself is even more reason to laugh in your general direction.
Saying someone is making a childish response whilst failing to understand the comment itself is even more reason to laugh in your general direction.
And your lack of basic reading skills is enough to take the piss out of you. You were the one that specified US companies. I might not be able to stop government access but I can damn well stop unwanted commercial parasites from seeing my private communications.
Sky make their money on TV subs - and line rental but we're all getting ripped off there regardless of supplier.
They don't make anything of note out of their BB subs as they spend so much on upgrading the network.
Yes I'm sure some of you are now about to rattle off anecdotal accounts of Sky being crap but with the exception of Sky Connect (non-LLU stuff) they're really very good and their BB forums are pretty quiet - unlike the billing forum :P
The holy grail for Sky is to extend the reach of their TV offerings beyond satellite as fast as possible. They aren't building the network capacity up for file-sharing, you can be sure of that :)
Hence the NowTV stuff and I'd be willing to bet if they did tie up with Vodafone then streaming from the Sky CDNs wouldn't count towards any data usage on Vodafone.
It's a win-win for both of them but as always there will be areas that can't currently handle the traffic and that'll take time to sort out.
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