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Comcast Takes on the FCC

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 [...]

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FCC Not Pleased with Comcast, Other "Throttlers"

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 [...]