FCC Says Comcast Broke Rules

Source: www.voip-news.com

The FCC doesn’t like Comcast’s past behavior. Slowing down their traffic to discourage VoIP? That one was a big — huge — no no. Seriously.

And now, they are talking about it in the open.

According to PC Mag:

Martin announced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that the agency would investigate Comcast after an AP article accused the provider of blocking access to file-sharing applications.

That investigation found that Comcast is “broadly and arbitrarily” blocking certain applications like BitTorrent, which in turn, denies “subscriber access to the legal Internet content of their choice,” according to the FCC source.

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