Comcast's New Plan: Send Heavy Users To The Back Of The Line

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 15:15

Comcast agreed last year to change the way it was dealing with supposedly "heavy" users, after it came out (following many denials from Comcast) that the company was using a rather heavy-handed manner to block certain services from working, without bothering to tell anyone.

Now the company has said that it will be implementing a plan whereby heavy bandwidth users will be sent to a sort of "time out" room where all of their traffic will be slowed...

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