Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Thu, 03/27/2008 - 06:27

Comcast has announced that it will lift the ban on BitTorrent traffic, which prevented its users from sharing files using the popular protocol.

The ISP and BitTorrent Inc. will work together on finding customer friendly solutions for the congestion allegedly caused by BitTorrent traffic.

comcastComcast has announced that it will stop targeting BitTorrent transfers and has said it will invest in its network capacity.

For the time being the company will throttle users who use the most bandwidth, not...

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