Post by Hauskaz on Jul 11, 2008 21:58:33 GMT -5
www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/11/comcast-punished-throttling
THE US FEDERAL Communications Commission is likely to punish Comcast for breaking net neutrality laws.
Comcast got into trouble for blocking Internet traffic among users of a certain type of "file sharing" software.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told AP that the commission had adopted a set of principles that protects consumers' access to the Internet and Comcast's actions violated them.
He said that Comcast "arbitrarily" blocked Internet access, regardless of the level of traffic, and failed to tell anyone it was doing it.
Comcast denied it blocked Internet content or services and that the " carefully limited measures" it did run were all about sensible network management.
Martin will order Comcast to stop its practice of blocking, provide details to the extent and manner in which the practice has been used and to disclose to consumers details on future plans for managing its network going forward.
If the commission backs him, and it is very likely to do so, then Comcast will be fined. ยต
AP link in the article is dead though.
Salvation?
THE US FEDERAL Communications Commission is likely to punish Comcast for breaking net neutrality laws.
Comcast got into trouble for blocking Internet traffic among users of a certain type of "file sharing" software.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told AP that the commission had adopted a set of principles that protects consumers' access to the Internet and Comcast's actions violated them.
He said that Comcast "arbitrarily" blocked Internet access, regardless of the level of traffic, and failed to tell anyone it was doing it.
Comcast denied it blocked Internet content or services and that the " carefully limited measures" it did run were all about sensible network management.
Martin will order Comcast to stop its practice of blocking, provide details to the extent and manner in which the practice has been used and to disclose to consumers details on future plans for managing its network going forward.
If the commission backs him, and it is very likely to do so, then Comcast will be fined. ยต
AP link in the article is dead though.
Salvation?
