January 12, 2010
Over the past year or two, the FCC has made a large issue over Comcast Corp’s throttling and/or blocking of peer to peer traffic is now famous, and has altered the public’s view of broadband forever. The FCC’s position was that the Internet should be a wide open environment, to allow companies to innovate, while [...]
July 25, 2008
In what appears to be a major victory for net neutrality advocates, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin stated last week that Comcast’s practice of “throttling” certain groups of users is wrong and should be punished:
“’The commission has adopted a set of principles that protects consumers access to the Internet,’ the commission chairman, Kevin J. Martin, told [...]