| FCC orders Comcast to stop arbitrarily blocking Internet traffic |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 05 August 2008 | |
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The FCC decision to uphold the petition was reached by a 3:2 majority after receiving evidence from engineers and other experts, plus 6500 comments from interested parties. If the FCC is to believed, Comcast's behaviour in the matter has been questionable to say the least. The FCC statement asserts that the company initially claimed it had no responsibility for the peer-to-peer problems its customers were reporting, then that it only interfered with such traffic during times of network congestion, and finally that it interfered with peer-to-peer traffic regardless of the time of day or the degree of network congestion. Comcast has been ordered to provide details of its discriminatory network management practices, a plan to stop such practices by the end of the year, and disclose to its customers and the FCC the practices that will be adopted in their place. Why do I believe some commentators are misrepresenting the ruling? Find out on page 2. |
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