We don’t mean to influence the “Worst Company In America” voting, but check this out: if you call Comcast and ask them to stop sending you anything other than your bill, they’ll agree but quietly slap you with a $1.99 “change of service” fee.
Comcast has changed its ToS to mirror the FCC’s Internet Policy Statement. The newly-revised ToS spells out what its users figured out several months ago: that the cable ISP actively manages traffic on its network.
Friends and foes of ‘Net neutrality faced off at Harvard Law School today. The star of the show was Comcast EVP David L. Cohen, with FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin, Columbia Law School professor Timothy Wu, and others playing supporting roles. We’ve got audio of the debate between Cohen, Wu, and the general counsel of Free Press inside.
A number of consumer groups are petitioning the FCC to fine Comcast $195,000 for every customer affected by their BitTorrent-throttling practices.
In a lengthy FCC filing, Comcast offers its fullest explanation yet of how it “delays” certain P2P traffic. If you thought that your 6Mbps connection entitled you to actually use 6Mbps of bandwidth all the time, Comcast begs to differ.
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According to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a group of consumer advocates and legal scholars have asked the commission to look into Comcast discriminating against specific types of data (read: Bit Torrent). The groups have also requested the FCC to fine Comcast $195,000 per affected subscribers.
Less than two weeks after a complaint was filed with the FCC, Comcast now faces a class-action lawsuit over its practice of blocking BitTorrent and other P2P traffic.
One of the most vocal anti-network neutrality lobby groups has written to the FCC… in support of an investigation of Comcast. Pressure is building on the FCC to act, and opponents of net neutrality would rather have an industry-friendly FCC investigating the issue than a new law.
Users participating in the FCC’s public comment period on Comcast’s alleged P2P blocking have harsh words for the cable giant, and accuse it of blocking more than just P2P. They wonder, why is it so hard to tell the truth?
The FCC has officially launched a rule-making proceeding to determine if Comcast has violated its principles on “reasonable network management” with its “delaying” of P2P traffic.
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