"UK net neutrality was stillborn as an issue, but Carter was happy today to give its corpse a kick"

El Reg puts it well:

"In the UK, net neutrality was stillborn as an issue, but Carter was happy today to give its corpse a kick. As well as advocating tiered content delivery, he backed "traffic management"; the somewhat euphemistic industry term for BitTorrent throttling."

I write this on a free public WiFi at 5Mbps in Philadelphia, where municipal open broadband and open access wireless broadband are on the agenda...its also the home of Comcast but the City of Brotherly Love never said it was perfect...