Tuesday, April 22, 2008

FCC: Comcast Blocking Was Widespread

Grant Gross writes on InfoWorld:

Comcast's slowing of peer-to-peer traffic appeared to be more widespread than the company has disclosed, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.

FCC chairman Kevin Martin, testifying before a Senate committee, said Comcast's blocking of BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic appeared to happen when there wasn't network congestion, in contrast to claims from the broadband provider. Comcast's actions, first described by the Associated Press last October, appeared to "block uploads of a significant portion of subscribers" in that part of the network, even during times when the network wasn't congested, Martin said.

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