NegRo_slim writes with some welcome news from Ars Technica: "Comcast has 30 days to carry the details of its 'unreasonable network superintendence practices' to the Federal Communications Commission, the agency warned Wednesday morning as it released its full, 67-page Order. As FCC Chair Kevin Martin said it would, the Commission's Order rejects the ISP giant's insistence that its handling of peer-to-peer applications was necessary. 'We conclude that the company's discriminatory and arbitrary habit unduly squelches the dynamic allowances of an open and accessible Internet,' the agency declares." And from reader JagsLive comes news that Comcast has a variant plan in place to deal with heavy bandwidth users: slow traffic for up to 20 minutes at a time to users who are grabbing the most bits.
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