BT scraps fair use and allows downloads without restrictions

BT has announced that it will remove the fair use policy on its fibre broadband packages, meaning that Total Broadband and Infinity customers will be able to download as much data as they want.

This gets rid of previous limits on broadband downloads, which applied even for customers with "unlimited downloads", as if they downloaded more than 300GB they were limited by speed restrictions.

However, the telecommunications company has said that a "traffic management" policy will still be in place, which restricts certain applications such as P2P "when the network is busy".

"As BT continues to invest in the network and network bandwidth we can now remove these restrictions and ensure the experience of the wider customer base," said Mayuresh Thavapalan, General Manager of Consumer Broadband at BT Retail.

"On completion there will be no individual user controls targeted at atypical users on our BT Total Broadband and BT Infinity products."

BT Infinity is the company's new fibre broadband service which claims to offer speeds of up to 40 Mbps.

Posted by Martin Ellis