Bandwidth Hogs Leap Roadblocks

Emerging internet file-sharing services have begun to derail attempts by some wireless internet providers to weed-out bandwidth hogs on their services. Managing director of Sydney-based wireless ISP BigAir Jason Ashton said there was nothing the company could do to stop the traffic and pointed to Rapid Share, a web-based file-sharing system, as an example of one of the new breed causing headaches for the company’s technical staff