Entanet’s Head of Marketing, Darren Farnden, said:

"To say we are disappointed by this outcome would be a huge understatement, but we are not particularly surprised. The government (and now the courts) seem determined to get this controversial and poorly considered Act implemented no matter what and seem to have little consideration for the views of one of the two main industries to be affected by it. We continue to applaud BT and TalkTalk for fighting this Act and hope they are able to mount an appeal on this decision.

The fifth ground regarding the allocation of costs also provides little comfort to ISPs who will not be required to contribute towards the costs of setting up this scheme but will still be required to contribute 25% of the costs for running the appeals process and the letter notifications as part of the three strikes policy."