Bandwidth in the UK

So I am finding the DC 09 textbook to be a useful reminder of the ways the internet actually exists as physical materials and various types of connections between machines, not just as an amorphous sphere.

There is currently a controversy in the UK about who will pay for rising bandwidth use resulting from the BBC's new iPlayer. The larger issue at play here, especially when dealing with privately owned content providers, is net neutrality, (here's a recent bbc article about this) an issue I've been struggling to grasp for a while now.

Also involved is the digital divide, which may become more complicated as applications and streaming media that demand higher bandwidth become more ubiquitous. (When will having a personal website and a hypertext resume become necessary for employment? How will citizens be required to interact with government websites in 5 or 10 years?) Being unconnected will still be an issue, but being less connected might be a more widespread problem that will default to public libraries to solve.