[ NNSquad ] 18+% of worldwide broadband throttled by application

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

  [ forwarded with permission - Lauren ]

Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:09:54 -0400
From: Keith Dawson <kdawson@slashdot.org>
Subject: 18+% of worldwide broadband throttled by application
To: lauren@vortex.com

DPI vendor [Sandvine] says 90% of ISP customers engage in traffic  
discrimination

http://is.gd/228NM

or

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/network-neutrality-dead-in-practice-as-most-isps-throttle.ars

That's 18% of wireline broadband customers, worldwide. 160 ISPs.
And of course that's just one DPI supplier. Ars adds, "If you
thought that network neutrality was some kind of default position
for the worldwide Internet, think again."

-- KDawson

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