Way back in June 2004, we exclusively received word of impending bandwidth capping to be introduced on the BTYahoo Broadband 512Kbps and 1Mbps products. Some 8 months later, BTYahoo are still yet to enforce such a measure, always citing that details would emerge closer to the Spring 2005 arrival of the capping.

We since understand that BT will be introducing the capping in two stages, one for existing BTYahoo customers who have existing accounts or have ordered broadband on or before 16 February 2005, and for those customers who sign up on or after the 17th February 2005. Details of the latter is expected to be announced by BTYahoo very soon, and should give a good indication of the finer details existing BTYahoo customers can expect.

Further, we understand that BTYahoo will put into place facilities for customers to check their current usage of their service by Easter 2005 (around the last week in March), with capping introduced in May or June 2005, and there is no plan to alter the currently advised capped rates of 15GB for the 512Kbps product, or 30GB for the 1Mbps product.

Customers who find they exceed their monthly allowance will have two options, one of which has the subscriber paying for additional usage (price yet to be known), with any excess of these "Top ups" being carried over to future months for use if needed. The second option sees the user accepting a throttled service of 150Kbps for the remainder of the month.