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FiOS customer shows Verizon does serious throttling shenanigans with Netflix

P.M. Roanhouse2014-07-262014-07-26
Culture / Internet Culture / Internet Services / Tech Politics / Technology / Technology Policy / Televisions

FiOS subscriber Colin Nederkoorn, a startup CEO who resides in New York City, pays for FiOS Internet that promised service of 75 Mbps download and 35 Mbps upload. However, his Netflix video streams were limping along at just 375 kbps (0.375mbps). Which is about only 0.5 percent of the speed he’s paying for.  So on a lark he decided to connect […]

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Verizon just got caught lying their pants off about purposely slowing Netflix speeds

P.M. Roanhouse2014-07-18
Culture / Internet Services

American multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company Level3, is siding with Netflix in posting a letter from Level3’s Mark Taylor. In it they show how Verizon has just opened itself up to a world of hurt. It goes to show  proof that Verizon is purposely throttling Netflix’s service to end customers who are on Verizon. This is something big, proof […]

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Dave The IT Guy Sucker Punches Verizon FIOS Over Throttling His Internet!

P.M. Roanhouse2014-04-092014-05-16
Culture / Internet Services

Verizon had to issue a statement on Wednesday after a personal blog post on a website called “Dave’s Blog”; headlined: “Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory To Wage War Against Netflix” – sparked massive outcry on the broadband oligopoly here in the USA. Verizon’s statement

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Open Internet Rules & Network Neutrality take serious blow as courts side with Verizon in lawsuit against FCC

P.M. Roanhouse2014-01-15
Culture / Internet Services / Technology Policy

In the Washington DC federal appeals court on Tuesday, Verizon won a very troubling decision. It is a decision that if not fought could lead to troubling ideas of “toll road” internet prices. Tiers of internet that block certain services like cable packages block certain channels in different cable packages. Independent web services and websites like Netflix, Facebook, Skype, or […]

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