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12-15-2017 09:41 AM |
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Originally Posted by Eleazar
(Post 13283583)
lemme know when that starts
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Attempted years ago.
Even in the U.S., there have been some major violations by small and large ISPs. These include:
The largest ISP, Comcast, secretly interfering with peer-to-peer technologies, including some of the most popular basic technologies used to distribute online TV and music (2005-2008);
A small telephone ISP called Madison River blocking Vonage, a company providing competing telephone service online (2005);
Apple blocking Skype on the iPhone, subject to a secret contract with AT&T, a company that competes with Skype in providing telephone service (2008-2009);
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile blocking the functionality of Google Wallet on Nexus devices, while all three of those ISPs are part of a competing mobile payments joint venture called Isis (late 2011- +today);
and Comcast's disputes with Level 3 and Netflix over termination fees, and the appearance that Comcast is deliberately congesting its network connections to force Netflix to pay Comcast for an acceptable connection (2010- +today).
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