No, not strangling them, just reducing their download speeds. Today’s article on the BBC site:
BT Broadband cuts the speed users can watch video services like the BBC iPlayer and YouTube at peak times.  A customer who has signed on to an up to 8 megabit per second (MBPS) package can have speed cut to below 1Mbps. A [...]

Ofcom seems intent on out-doing Lord Carter’s Digital Britain Report (see “Ofcom backs expansion of super-fast broadband” in the Guardian). However, today’s announcement seems more like spin than action, although the mainstream media is lapping it up.
I looks as if the Digital Britain report may end up being a bit mute, since Ofcom has given [...]

So, it sounds like BT will finally be excused from its universal service obligations in the UK (BT to Get Universal Service Relief), rather than just resting on BT, this will now be a requirement shared across UK carriers. Stephen Carter’s ‘digital review’ hopes to have a knock on effect for Broadband in the UK, [...]

From the inquirer:
We’re probably never going to get the much-anticipated super-fast broadband we’ve all been waiting for…. ….A group of self-serving shareholders has contacted Chief Executive Ian Livingston suggesting that BT should hoard its cash instead of putting it to good use updating the UK’s snail-paced broadband.
Livingston said, “There are some shareholders who say ‘you [...]

Not sure what to say about the last couple of days of last week… Perhaps I should put it in numbers:

BT to axe 10,000 jobs ( via Mad).
Sun Microsystems to lay off 6000 souls (via the inquirer).
Nokia Paints Bleak Picture for Handset Business (via xchange).

Podcast and slightly cheerier things after the jump…