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Comcast shows no signs of repentance for its dubious business practices. The company, as with a large number of other ISPs, is obviously trying to hijack and stall the evolution of the Internet in order to have profit margins hard to imagine in other businesses. After being slapped by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for throttling and/or blocking P2P traffic over its network, Comcast now wants to limit traffic or force users to pay more for additional bandwidth and/or to slow down so-called "heavy users."
What this means? Well, it's very simple: Comcast will not slow down or block just certain types of traffic, but rather all traffic, if it is deemed "heavy." They call it "deprioritizing." Comcast users, please get rid of your ISP now and find a less greedy Internet provider.
Our country is left behind in high-speed Internet lines and most European and Asian developed countries have significantly better connections than the very country where Internet was invented, precisely because Comcast and many others like them are trying to maximize profits at all expenses.
It's high time that ISPs start working continuously on improving the infrastructure and stop just charging money for technology which was put in place a decade ago. This is why the United States needs Internet traffic to be unregulated, forcing ISPs to build up a high-performance network rather than throwing money away on traffic-blocking technologies.
The FCC presented Comcast a few days ago with a 67-page Order which says its dubious actions are considered "inconsistent with the concept of an open and accessible Internet," and therefore must be immediately terminated. Over the next 30 days, Comcast must appear before the FCC with all the details of its "unreasonable network management practices" and also with a complete strategy for handling the situation by the end of the year.
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