Public Knowledge Says New Study Shows FCC Needs To Act on Comcast Blocking
Public Knowledge Says New Study Shows FCC Needs To Act on Comcast Blocking:
The Max Planck Institute has released a new survey of worldwide BitTorrent traffic finding that Comcast and Cox are the chief offenders for throttling traffic, and that they block at all hours of the day and night.
The study is here:
http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/results/
The following statement is attributed to Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder of Public Knowledge:
“This study is further proof that the largest cable companies are hiding behind ‘network management’ excuses when caught throttling the legitimate traffic of their customers. This study clearly shows there is no blocking at peak usage times, or on certain busy days. The study found the ‘percentage of blocked connections remains high at all times of the day. Our data suggests that the BitTorrent blocking is independent of the time of the day.’