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So the big news in broadband policy yesterday was that a US Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC did not have the legal authority to stop Comcast from mucking with P2P traffic on their network. In fact, the ruling...
While this news was a surprise to nobody, I still found myself shaking my head about it: Comcast is suing over the FCC's ruling against their treatment of P2P traffic. This isn't surprising as there's been an argument brewing for...
Well, it's official. Comcast has announced its intentions to update all its user agreements on Oct. 1 to insert a 250GB monthly bandwidth cap. Some details are still sketchy, like the consequences of surpassing that cap (one idea floated is...
I've been needing to get back into exploring the topic of PEG and will be doing so next week as I lay out some thoughts for what its future could look like, but for now learning about how the city...
Much ado was made when the recent wireless spectrum options wrapped up and the two biggest winners were AT&T and Verizon. Pundits lamented over the fact the two biggest companies got the two biggest chunks of spectrum as they feared...
Comcast has recently come out with an aggressive push back against accusations of any misconduct in its treatment of P2P traffic on its network. First, the good news. They've announced a new relationship with BitTorrent through which they claim to...
There are many in the telecom world who believe the ultimate answer to all things broadband is competition. If you can just get that dynamo of capitalism churning then you'll create incentives through competition to spur investment and innovation. I've...
The maelstrom surrounding Comcast's decision to interfere with P2P traffic on its network gained a new front today as law firm Gilbert Randolph LLP filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Dr. Sanford Sidner and all the citizens of...
Earlier this week Comcast submitted comments to the FCC defending their right to slow down traffic on its network. The analogy they used to describe how they manage P2P traffic was that of an on-ramp to a busy highway that...
Everyone knows that cable companies have some problems with their broadband service. Theirs is a shared network where one neighbor can have dramatically negative impacts on another's service. There's the Comcast/Bittorrent brouhaha over the cable giant blocking or degrading sometimes-legal...
I had the great fortune to chat with Lynn Meikle of Meridian Township, Michigan on Monday. You may have heard of Meridian recently as last Friday they made news by filing suit against Comcast to stop plans to move PEG...
As mentioned yesterday, I attended a panel of representatives of the biggest broadband providers in the US, including: Tom Tauke of Verizon, Jim Cicconi of AT&T, Joseph Waz of Comcast, Mr. Ali of Sprint (my apologies to him if he's...
It's been an incredible year for FTTH in arena of public opinion. It started as an albatross, a costly gamble that Wall Street battered Verizon's stock price for daring to try. Then earlier this year attitudes began to shift. As...
In my research for a StreamingMedia.com feature that explores the opportunities and challenges of online HD video delivery, I learned about a company called Move Networks, which powers ABC's library of full-screen first-run episodes from its most popular TV shows....
Comcast's policies towards its heaviest users have been covered in AppRising on more than one occasion, but they're like the gift that keeps on giving as more news continues to come out as the storm around their decision to interfere...
The fallout from the news that Comcast is officially interfering with P2P traffic continues to grow. It's officially hit Congress now. Here's an article in large part about a conversation the author had with Representative Rick Boucher, D-VA. And there's...
Just when I sensed the net neutrality debate was cooling off and the opportunity for a rationale dialogue finally seemed possible, Comcast had to go and stick its finger into the eye of the net neutrality camp. Here's what's happened:...
Just found this Consumerist post about Comcast's policies towards its heaviest users. They claim to have talked with a former Comcast employee who cites that Comcast's invisible bandwidth limit is actually 200GB, rather than the 100GB I postulated earlier this...
In the latest news on Comcast’s moves to cut off service to its heaviest users, they’ve made an official, though somewhat obtuse, statement about their policy towards “excessive use." In this article, a spokesperson for Comcast defines “excessive use” as...
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