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Opinion – How the Role of the F.C.C. Impacts Internet Providers

Posted by on Apr 12, 2010 in Service Providers | 0 comments

By Sarah Sorensen http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/opinion—how-the-role-of-the.html On April 6th, a federal appeals court ruled that the F.C.C. did not have the authority to regulate how Internet service providers manage their network. At issue was Comcast’s right to slow customer’s access to the bandwidth intensive, file-sharing service BitTorrent. While they can now limit traffic that is overloading the network, Comcast was careful to say that it had changed its...

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