Comcast May 'Throttle' High Bandwidth Users' Internet Speeds: Report

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Comcast May 'Throttle' High Bandwidth Users' [news.cnet.com]Internet Speeds: Report

Comcast reportedly plans to reduce Internet service to customers it deems to be using too much bandwidth, a move that comes on the heels of federal regulators ruling that the Internet service provider violated the law by throttling BitTorrent transfers.

To keep service flowing to other customers, Comcast plans to impede Internet speeds to its heaviest users for up to 20 minutes, Mitch Bowling, Comcast's senior vice president and general manager of online services, told Bloomberg in an interview Tuesday.

[Lord Majestic]

They should have planned to implement DOCSIS 3 and stop whining about users using the resource they paid for.

[thecoalman]

Hmmm, wonder how this will effect their advertising. Their big point in every commercial is "blazing fast speeds for large downloads" and "10X faster than DSL" or other similar statements. They won't be able to continue down that road or they'll be facing false advertising charges next.