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FCC looks at Netflix, ISP agreements on traffic exchange
2014-06-16 08:54:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The US FCC said it plans to look at the agreements between Netflix and ISPs such as Verizon and Comcast on exchanging traffic. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the regulator was concerned that consumers were not receiving the quality of services for which they pay. He ordered the Commission staff to obtain the information needed "to understand precisely what is happening in order to understand whether consumers are being harmed". Staff already started requesting information from ISPs and content providers, and the FCC has received copies of the agreements between Comcast and Netflix and Verizon and Netflix. Wheeler stressed that the regulator is only collecting information at this point, and not regulating the market. Separately, its public consultation on proposed new Open Internet rules remains open for comment. "The bottom line is that consumers need to understand what is occurring when the internet service they've paid for does not adequately deliver the content they desire, especially content they've also paid for," the chairman said.
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Bell first, Rogers last in Netflix ranking of Canadian ISP speeds
2014-05-13 00:56:32| Telecom - Topix.net
Users accessing Netflix through Bell's fibre optic network in April had an average speed of 3.19 megabits per second, while Rogers' average speed was just 1.67 Mbps, according to the streaming company.
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Netflix, Comcast, AT&T and the War Over ISP Fees
2014-04-05 15:11:43| Telecom - Topix.net
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Woe is ISP: 30% of Americans cant choose their service provider
2014-03-14 17:00:45| Extremetech
In the United States, many of us have no choice whatsoever in the way of broadband ISPs. Plenty of localities are more than happy to offer monopolies to mega-corps, and that means competition is effectively nonexistent in those areas. Price hikes, stagnant speeds, and other bad behaviors are free to run rampant, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Upwards of 30% of Americans have absolutely no choice in the matter, and SoftBank is upset about that. So, what's its proposed solution to the lack of competition? Even more consolidation.
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Dutch court overturns 'ineffective' ISP block on Pirate Bay
2014-01-28 12:17:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) A court in The Hague has overturned an order for Dutch ISPs XS4All and Ziggo to block the Pirate Bay file-sharing website. The court said the ban was "ineffective", an affront to free entrepreneurship and too wide-ranging a sanction given its limited achievements. The ruling overturns an earlier court order won in January 2012 by Stichting Brein, a foundation set up to protect copyright interests, for the two ISPs to block their customers' access to the Pirate Bay. The court in The Hague heard the appeal by Ziggo and XS4All in September 2013. It rejected Brein's arguments and ordered the foundation to pay the legal costs of the case, of around EUR 325,000. According to research by Telecompaper, around 18 percent of Dutch consumers say they download content from peer-to-peer websites. Customers at KPN, the owner of XS4All, were the least likely to use P2P sites, with 69 percent saying they never do so. This was higher than at other major ISPs, such as UPC (54%) and Telfort (46%).