Comcast could be punished for throttling
Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 10 July 2008
The US federal Communications Commission is likely to punish Comcast for breaking net neutrality laws.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told AP that the commission had adopted a set of principles that protects consumers' access to the Internet and Comcast's actions violated them.
Martin will order Comcast to stop its practice of blocking, provide details to the extent and manner in which the practice has been used and to disclose to consumers details on future plans for managing its network going forward.
That's a good signal. An ISP should do nothing else but providing access without any limitations. And if limitations are needed, it needs to say so before you sign up and not try to mess with your connection afterwards.