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Comcast Quits Throttling BitTorrent, Targets Heavy Users Instead

By soulxtc

Formally rolls out new network traffic congestion management practices that are protocol agnostic. Comcast, the country's second largest ISP, has announced that as of December 31st, 2008 it has ceased throttling BitTorrent users as requested by the FCC back in August of 2008. "Effective December 31, 2008, we have completed this transition, which is now part of our daily business operations for managing congestion on our network," reads an announcement on its website. "The approach is designed to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, that all of our high-speed Internet customers have fair and equal access to the Internet and to bandwidth resources." The FCC found Comcast in violation of the agency's principles for electively targeting and throttling the connection speeds of a single application - BitTorrent - as part of its overall efforts in managing network traffic.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).