Thanks to Ann Higgins to sending me the heads up on shift of winds at Comcast (Comcast to stop hampering file-sharing). Comcast got into trouble for throttling customer traffic based on usage. One of the big examples was cutting off BitTorrent users.
Well, faster than prom dates are made and broken at this time of year – Comcast and BitTorrent are friends. They are going to work together to find a better way to manage the traffic so that all users get the bandwidth they need.
It sounds as if they are hoping to have some solutions in place by the end of the year. It will be interesting to see how if this has any effect on the FCC meetings. I think that the fact that the vendors have worked on a solution together will demonstrate that a light touch in regulation can work. (That’s not a vote one way or another from me – just an observation.)
[...] & BitTorrent are friends. I reported on this earlier – but the timing of the announcement coincided with the conference; c|net posted a nice Q&A [...]
By: Tech Policy Summit 2008 « Blandin on Broadband on March 31, 2008
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