Virgin Media has been forced to backtrack after a recent outburst by its CEO, Neil Berkett, labelled net neutrality "a load of b****cks" before proceeding to say that it was doing deals to improve access to some content providers (original news).

Clearly Berkett left his PR skills at home that day and the clean up work has now been left to one of Virgin's spokesmen, who states that the operator does not intend to restrict access to content providers that do not pay:


We suspect that Virgin's statement to The Register will do little to dampen fears that the ISP may one day adopt targeted restrictions directed at specific content providers. Either way, the statement certainly reads a lot better than Berkett's interpretation. Personally speaking, many of us would rather pay a little extra for unhindered access but not everybody, choice should be paramount.