FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules
Posted by RangerLG on 11 July 2008 - 14:43 · 8 comments & 3767 views
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#1 Posted by iwod on 11 Jul 2008 - 15:04
- I dont know if FCC is right on this, but if they really force Comcast i think every ISP on the planet should start charging customer by their download usage and connection IOs.
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#1.1 Posted by HalcyonX12 on 11 Jul 2008 - 18:16
- That's ridiculous when ISPs in other countries are moving to much faster unlimited speeds. Should USA artificially become a 3rd world country when it comes to technology just because a few companies can make more money in the short term?
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#2 Posted by +Digix on 11 Jul 2008 - 15:19
- This is why net neutrality is needed. comcast or FCC aren't ones to judge or make "internet rules" else where's the public and global say in what these "rules" are ? exactly, it's bs.
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#3 Posted by astrokat on 11 Jul 2008 - 15:37
- Why does comcast have to block internet traffic when other larger and smaller isp's allow bittorrent traffic on their network?
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#4 Posted by Burst404 on 11 Jul 2008 - 15:59
- Lame...
I don't know how the world works, exactly, but the internet needs to run on GLOBAL STANDARDS, not country, company, state, or city standards... Bandwidth throttling is bad, mmkay?
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#6 Posted by nunjabusiness on 12 Jul 2008 - 01:03
- Slap 'em boys!
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#7 Posted by Airlink on 12 Jul 2008 - 03:35
- Meanwhile, South Korean ISPs are routinely using DOCSIS 3.0 gear to crank out 100 megabyte connections to their customers. Here in North America, you're lucky if you can get a 5 MB ADSL connection. Maybe 10 MB if you wanna pay a hefty premium.
On top of that, greedy bastards like Comcast and Shaw wanna throttle your Internet, block P2P, make you pay by the gigabyte, and tell you what Internet sites you can and cannot have access to. Can you say "This Sucks"? I knew you could.
I'm glad the FCC is gonna put the beat-down on Comcast for "arbitrarily blocking Internet access" but how about somebody show some leadership and catch us up with the kind of broadband speed you can get in Korea and Japan already. At this point, I'd be happy with an affordable 10MB subscription. I'm tired of being stuck at 5 MB.
"The commission has adopted a set of principles that protects consumers access to the Internet," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told The Associated Press late Thursday. "We found that Comcast's actions in this instance violated our principles." Martin said Comcast has "arbitrarily" blocked Internet access, regardless of the level of traffic, and failed to disclose to consumers that it was doing so.