FCC Votes 3-2 to Force Comcast to Open Internet Access

Terry Olaes

Terry Olaes

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We told you last week that it was expected that the FCC would vote to punish Comcast. On Friday, the final vote came down and it was 3-2 in favor to enforce a policy that guarantees customers open access to the Internet. Too bad - so sad, Comcast.

The commission did not assess a fine, but ordered the company to stop cutting off transfers of large data files among customers who use a special type of "file-sharing" software.
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Sweet! those people who voted yes are awesome :) But they were too late, i switched already hehe.
 
Customers = 1, Comcast = 0

Thank you FCC for protecting the consumer and shoving up Comcast's stuck up nether region.

I too already switched from Comcast due to thier BS games they play.
 
3-2 seems like a rather close call. I'd be more confident in the FCC if it was 4-1 or unanimous. Oh well, take what we can get...
 
Yea wow this is good news NOT the FCC is owned by the telcos why do you think they do nothing against verizon or att ever. FCC is as corrupt as they can be.
 
i expect comcast to raise prices for a big screw you customers, we eventually win.
 
A victory for net neutrality, if I do say so myself. Now I wish Canada's "FCC" (the CRTC) had the balls and the power to go after our ISPs :(
 
w1retap said:
This calls for an....

OWNED
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Noone got owned but the public.

COmcast received no fine, and were simply ordered to stop the throttling by the end of the year... Except they had already stopped over the PR backlash they were receiving, and already had a plan to impliment a new system by the end of the year.


In the end the FCC did jack-fucking-shit except tell Comcast to do what they were already in the process of doing.
 
The public did get owned for a long time.. but they did it by choice by signing up with their service and sticking with it. I dropped it long ago.

It really does call for an owned though, because Comcast got called out on the Federal level. Now they have zero excuses and people can use that against them if they ever try anything in the future.
 
The funny thing is they werent/ arent doing it in every system. So its not necessarily a corporate policy. Might be a regional issue though. Still kinda pointless as docsis 3 is around the corner promising 100Mb downloads.
 
My upload speed just tripled starting yesterday. Upstream was about 90kb/s actual now it's topping out at over 280. Thx FCC (for once).
 
Two of the three Republican members of the commission, Robert McDowell and Deborah Taylor Tate.

Thank goodness one of them was able to locate their conscience, or the ISP's would have declared it a Federal mandate to cornhole customers even worse than before.
 
See, that's what worries me. Seems like we're always 1 vote away from becoming like China when it comes to censorship, filtering, etc. It's ridiculous.
 
heh, all this means is that comcast can now track our downloads more easily because they're not throttling our internet access.
 
lol i'm sure that wouldn't have mattered either way radeon :D

it would be nice if this applied to all internet companies lol
 
ServerKing said:
Yea wow this is good news NOT the FCC is owned by the telcos why do you think they do nothing against verizon or att ever. FCC is as corrupt as they can be.
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Of course. The government does something good, so you criticize them for not doing more good things. Typical American attitude. :rolleyes: Hey, do you think maybe the government would do more if they ever got some thanks?

SilverSliver said:
See, that's what worries me. Seems like we're always 1 vote away from becoming like China when it comes to censorship, filtering, etc. It's ridiculous.
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1. That's what democracy is for.

2. The existence of your post disproves its contents.
 
HOCP4ME said:
Of course. The government does something good, so you criticize them for not doing more good things. Typical American attitude. :rolleyes: Hey, do you think maybe the government would do more if they ever got some thanks?



1. That's what democracy is for.

2. The existence of your post disproves its contents.
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Last time I checked, I didn't vote for either of those guys, nor the people that put them in any sort of office.

Democracy is fine, but when you have a bunch of ignorant fools willing to vote on people that will throw away their freedoms at a whim, it sort of defeats the purpose now doesn't it?
 
Yay! My "Certain File Sharing Programs" are doing great, and I was really worried when Comcast bought Insight. :p
 
"COmcast received no fine, and were simply ordered to stop the throttling by the end of the year... Except they had already stopped over the PR backlash they were receiving, and already had a plan to impliment a new system by the end of the year."



They didn't stop throttling until the FCC smacked them. My connection is finally stabilized.


Time to get back to spreading the Good News!

/me starts his "bible" torrent up
 
More than just a win today. This means the FCC is not messing around, sending a message to all other ISP's that the FCC is in control, and you will be reprimanded if you don't follow the guidelines.

Good thing too. I work with a local ISP that was thinking about doing the same thing comcast was doing. Limiting/blocking Bit Torrent traffic. I'm sure they are thinking twice about it now.
 
I think it's funny that some of you are calling the two opposed votes "communists" when clearly they're pro-business all the way, which is the opposite of a communist. Moreover they're Republicans who typically use the word "socialist" to try to undermine various Democratic opposition.
 
I'm probably in the minority here, but I for one dislike file sharing software. My argument isn't a "you're stealing" one, it's more of a "you're hogging a ton of shared bandwidth." When I was in college, so many people had Kazaa/Limewire running that just trying to get to a website took forever. Watching your packet loss in online games reach almost 100% is a lot of fun too. Get enough people in your local vicinity where you're all using Comcast and all running Bit Torrent (uploading & downloading files) and you'll get the same issue.

Also, there is talk of ISP's changing contracts to charge customers who use more than the predetermined (for lack of a better terminology) bandwidth more money.
 
buji said:
I'm probably in the minority here, but I for one dislike file sharing software. My argument isn't a "you're stealing" one, it's more of a "you're hogging a ton of shared bandwidth." When I was in college, so many people had Kazaa/Limewire running that just trying to get to a website took forever. Watching your packet loss in online games reach almost 100% is a lot of fun too. Get enough people in your local vicinity where you're all using Comcast and all running Bit Torrent (uploading & downloading files) and you'll get the same issue.

Also, there is talk of ISP's changing contracts to charge customers who use more than the predetermined (for lack of a better terminology) bandwidth more money.
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Well let's see here.. whose fault is that? The ISP again. If they can't provide bandwidth to everyone at the speeds they are advertising and selling, they either need to limit the amount of customers they have, or better their infrastructure. pfft.. don't blame me for using my service to it's abilities.. I pay $xx.00 per month for it.
 
cancelled comcast internet two months ago. i think ill call them up and resign, and ill make sure ill tell them im coming back only because the FCC made them guys bend over LOL
 
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