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Verizon will throttle its users
US TELECOM Verizon is going to throttle the bandwidth of users it considers to be heavy users in defiance of proposed US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) net neutrality rules and an attempt to suppress peer-to-peer filesharing traffic to please the media cartels.
Always anxious to appease US media copyright holders, Verizon has introduced a policy to throttle the bandwidth of many of its own subscribers. Shouting from the pocket of the US big media mafiaa, Verizon issued a statement (PDF) on its website that explains what it calls its new network management practices.
In it, the company said, "If you use an extraordinary amount of data and fall within the top [five per cent] of Verizon Wireless data users we may reduce your data throughput speeds periodically."
Verizon has spun some disclaimers trying to pretend it isn't targeting filesharers and hasn't adopted the practice to protect the interests of media conglomerates. The large US Internet service provider and mobile network operator claims it is merely "implementing optimisation and transcoding technologies" that are "agnostic to the content itself and to the website that provides it".
We're not sure how Verizon thinks it will get away with calling the delivery of slower Internet connections 'optimisation', but that's apparently its story and it seems to be setting itself up for a regulatory battle with the FCC in the US federal courts.
Although Verizon claimed that its new network management practices won't affect 95 per cent of its customers, there's no way to know and, even if it's true, that's certainly not going to satisfy the other five percent who are affected, or the FCC. Verizon is betting that, like Comcast, the US court systeme will let it get away with this power grab, in effect eviscerating the FCC's ability to enforce net neutrality.
And how will all of Verizon's other previously unlimited Internet access users know when they've strayed into its top five percent territory? The company hasn't stipulated anything regarding the volume of data traffic that will cause it to throttle a subscribers' bandwidth. But the answer is simple though. They will know when their bandwidth is throttled, but by then it will be too late. µ
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Fraud
These "Internet" service providers are no better than the old AOL or Compuserve. Read the terms. Shit companies like Comcast and Verizon prohibit you from running your own web server or any other service at home, contrary to what the rules of the FCC explicitly state. That is much worse than throttling. Not that any form of throttling is acceptable either.
If someone sells me an Internet connection with x Mbit/s, then I expect x Mbit/s. If a service provider cannot provide that, then the service provider should not sell x Mbit/s, because that would be fraud.
What comes next? Again, more tax money for the ISPs to connect the rural areas?
posted by : Telco'n's, 05 February 2011 Complain about this comment
WIRELESSS RAAAWWRRR
To the people who are yelling "it's wireless!!!" you must be one of the many fortunate people who can get cable or DSL service to your homes. There are a lot of you in the US (though comparatively low compared to actually modern countries that aren't crumbling relics of their former selves), but there are also a lot of people who aren't so fortunate and have no access to hard lines because phone and cable companies can't be bothered to provide service. In cases like that, they're stuck using wireless service for their primary connection at home. Seriously, there are a lot of people who really have no choice. Think about your normal windows instal and patch-- how much downloading has to be done for that? What about getting some DLC for a game or streaming some netflix? Oh! Welcome to the 5%, sucker! Screw you!
posted by : Owain, 06 February 2011
I just copied they's 2 because they said it all.
I live in a rural area and despite all MY! free government money they still don't provide a descent signal hear but they want an excuse to give bad service to more people ?! .
I say black list the greedy bastards.
Hung out
To the people who are yelling "it's wireless!!!" you must be one of the many fortunate people who can get cable or DSL service to your homes. There are a lot of you in the US (though comparatively low compared to actually modern countries that aren't crumbling relics of their former selves), but there are also a lot of people who aren't so fortunate and have no access to hard lines because phone and cable companies can't be bothered to provide service. In cases like that, they're stuck using wireless service for their primary connection at home. Seriously, there are a lot of people who really have no choice. Think about your normal windows instal and patch-- how much downloading has to be done for that? What about getting some DLC for a game or streaming some netflix? Oh! Welcome to the 5%, sucker! Screw you!
These "Internet" service providers are no better than the old AOL or Compuserve. Read the terms. Shit companies like Comcast and Verizon prohibit you from running your own web server or any other service at home, contrary to what the rules of the FCC explicitly state. That is much worse than throttling. Not that any form of throttling is acceptable either.
If someone sells me an Internet connection with x Mbit/s, then I expect x Mbit/s. If a service provider cannot provide that, then the service provider should not sell x Mbit/s, because that would be fraud.
What comes next? Again, more tax money for the ISPs to connect the rural areas?
Also the proposed deal with the FCC was that a) they could throttle away on wireless and b) that neutrality was only for 'legal' content.
Although I expect on wireless it is legal but just people buying streaming content.
Right from your own story: "the top [five per cent] of Verizon Wireless data users"
WIRELESS has a fixed amount of bandwidth available to all consumers in a given area, due to the physical limitations imposed by frequency allocations ("I canna change the laws of physics, Captain!").
If Verizon did NOT throttle the top 5% bandwidth users, it is highly likely that they would use 100% of the available bandwidth, leading to wireless network performance as bad as the AT&T wireless network.
"Who Owns the Pipes?
This is silly scaremongering. If Verizon checks bandwidth hogs to ensure they provide service to the other 95 percent of their paying customers, what's the big deal? If enough of the 5 percent of heavy users determine they're not happy with being checked once in a while, they can take their business elsewhere -- with the end result of Verizon making some concessions to stay in the game. Internet access is a marketplace, folks, not a birthright."
You are so right Mike!!!! Verizon should have the right to sell you a service, then keep your money and refuse you said service! After all, internet service isn't a birthright...but paying a monthly bill for something you aren't getting is?!?
It is the Useful Idiots of our generation that support a lack of net neutrality.
the link to the other article about verizon throttling their network connection has NOTHING to do with their regular internet services! if the author read the other article that they linked to it discusses verizon's throttling of their WIRELESS customers who download to much. it has nothing to do with their FIOS or dsl services. so there point on this affecting p2p downloaders, them supporting the media companies is nothing more than them creating fake news in an attempt to rile people up.
when you guys had charlie reporting for you i almost stop reading you because you became less concerned about reporting tech news than reporting your own opinion and hate towards a company. if i wanted peoples opinion id go to forums not supposed news sites! dont make a repeat of it.
This is silly scaremongering. If Verizon checks bandwidth hogs to ensure they provide service to the other 95 percent of their paying customers, what's the big deal? If enough of the 5 percent of heavy users determine they're not happy with being checked once in a while, they can take their business elsewhere -- with the end result of Verizon making some concessions to stay in the game. Internet access is a marketplace, folks, not a birthright.
From now on, Verizon is in the black list. Never, that includes my sugestions to customers who ask me what ISP they can use. Go to HELL, Verizon.
It sounds like the author may expect to be in the top 5%.
I'm ok with ISPs throttling those who suck up all the bandwidth of my internet connection and make it harder for me to connect. You play, you pay.
I'm a tad confused, if you have 100% of users, you must always have a top 5% no matter how much or how little data they use.
So, todays top 5% get throttled, so we get maybe a 'new' top 5% tomorrow who then get throttled etc. etc.
The end result could be that everyone gets throttled because at some stage in the process the throttling of others has thrust everyone in turn into the top 5%, sorted, Verizon 1 - users 0.