This has got to stop [telecom]

I'm like many Americans: I like to watch films or tv shows on NetFlix.

Comcast and NetFlix recently signed an agreement which ended Comcast's throttling of NetFlix content. Not surprisingly, NetFlix performance to Comcast customers increased dramatically after the agreement.

Verizon and NetFlix have not come to terms yet: presumably because Verizon wants a bigger cut than Comcast. I have a Verizon ADSL line, not because I like or dislike Comcast, but because it's the least-cost option for getting reasonable speed for my computer.

Except, NetFlix isn't being delivered reasonably: Verizon is throttling NetFlix at ever-more-aggressive rates, so that anything I watch is being interrupted every few minutes while my Roku player buffers content.

I'd ask if there was someone in the FCC whom is responsible for investigating what I think is obvious coercion, but I think the answer is also obvious.

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Posted 5 years ago by Bill Horne in General Telecommunications Forum

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