Comcast goes to war over Internet regulation

Fudzilla writes: "Comcast has decided to fight an FCC ruling that it is improperly blocking customers' Web traffic.

The FCC determined that the company is violating a federal policy that guarantees unfettered access to the Internet, but Comcast challenged the this ruling in the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington.

Comcast claims that the FCC order and that the commission's action was "legally inappropriate and its findings were not justified by the record." If Comcast wins it will limit the ability of the FCC to stop companies capping heavy users."

[Sophora]

yeah my internet has been really slow (I have comcast) thanks to the FCC's actions. go comcast, fight the good fight.

[iceman2885]

Comcast is trying to institute a download limit. Why would you cheer for them?

[JsonHenry]

I can't believe I am siding with the FCC on an issue. But I am.

[Sophora]

sorry, read the article wrong...

[MikeGdaGod]

i know, i used to work for them

[FantasyStar]

I know cause I use to sell for them at a retail store.

[shikwan]

i know cause I used to work for them too. Most of them can't understand why their service was interrupted when the didn't pay their bill for more than 60 days.

But yaa for the fcc!!

[Pika-pie]

I cant believe americans are complaining over a 250gb a month cap. When I first hear about this I thought WTF.

I have a 40Gb cap on my usage a month and I dont even come anywhere near that. Not to mention we probebly pay more for it in the UK.

What the hell are they compaining about? 8.3Gb a day is huge. If you are going over 250gb a month then you really should rethink your lifestyle.

[hfaze]

Considering that you're probably used to bandwidth caps, etc. in the UK, it doesn't sound like that big of a deal to you.

But if you had the chance to head off the caps before they became the norm, wouldn't you at least try?

The thing that these cable operators are trying to accomplish is safeguarding their video services. Now that HD video streaming is starting to catch on, they see this as a threat to their grossly over-priced cable TV service.

Comcast in particular is bragging about how they offer more HD channels than Dish Network or DirecTV, yet the HD channels they offer are severely compressed, and not even comparable to over-the-air 1080i broadcasts.

Personally, I don't want to see bandwidth caps start becoming the status-quo. For once I'm actually rooting for the FCC having the ability to enforce net-neutrality and Internet freedom.

This is the land of the free, not the land of the capped and tiered... ;-)

[CrippleH]

You guys got faster connection.

We got to at least get something GOOD from our ISP.

[Bigrhyno]

Currently 250 gigs wouldn't be much of a problem. But this will be a shot in the back to digital distribution and other internet services that are on their way to becoming bigger.

[V0LT]

How about taking those millions of dollars in profit and invest it in your networks.

Simple solution......

[jerethdagryphon]

this is why dd is ages off

and yes uk i suffer 8 meg connection 40gb a month and i do use most of that

[Teh-Venom]

Comcast...it's craptastic. :]

[Fanboy Slaughter]

For over 4 years here in northern IL, we had Insight 10Mbit/sec cable for $35/month, and it was awesome, no limits, and ANY AND ALL service calls were free of charge.

Jan. 1 of this year, Crapcast took over, lowered our speed to 6Mb/sec, and started charging $45/month, and the 10Mb I used to enjoy....I'm quoting a rep here; "Oh...that's our business class now, it's $79.99 a month for 10Mb/sec."

Not to mention they took away my National Geographic channel now and want to charge 14.99 a month for it.

C'Mon FCC...I know we had our beefs in the past, but if you destroy Comcast, I will never complain about full frontal nudity not being allowed on TV ever again, I swear!