After months of testing, and increasing backlash from consumers the Wall Street Journal reports today that Time Warner has shelved their plans for tiered broadband pricing. But while some are chanting victory there is more at stake here than saving a few bucks, network controls will need to be instituted by ISPs in some sense, [...]
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It’s official. DSL Reports has confirmed that Comcast will officially implement a 250 GB cap on bandwidth for broadband subscribers beginning October 1. This has been a long time coming, after the spotlight was shone on Comcast for their unorthadox network practices, and the FCC ruled against their policy of throttling P2P applications on their network, [...] On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission released a three page ruling finding that Comcast’s network management practices “unduly interfered with Internet users’ right to access the lawful Internet content and to use the applications of their choice.” While the order is a win for net-neutrality advocates, Google’s Public Policy Blog points out that it leaves unanswered [...] |
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