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 [...]

So, having failed to sell it’s UK broadband business, Tiscali now appears to be in big trouble. Ernst & Young raises questions about future of Tiscali and refused to sign off the companies annual results (See Tiscali piece in the FT) and they still haven’t found a buyer after talks with British Sky Broadcasting fell through. The [...]

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 [...]

According to the latest numbers from Dell’Oro Group today, VDSL is on the rise, although DSL in general is slowing down:
DSL port shipments on infrastructure equipment fell more than 10 percent in 2008. Within total ports, ADSL port shipments fell almost 20 percent while VDSL port shipments grew 40 percent.
The report predicts this trend will [...]

A piece in the register, subtly titled ”Deception of ‘up to’ broadband speeds exposed” has a nice bit of positive PR for Ofcom:
The average downstream broadband speed received by consumers is just 3.6Mbit/s, according to data released today from the most accurate UK internet access survey ever published.
El reg proclaims…
Ofcom’s new hardware-based broadband monitoring system found that despite [...]