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Monday, 4. August 2008
FCC Chairman Asks Comcast to Stop Its Practices
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin split with his Republican colleagues to join the two Democratic members to produce a 3-2 vote against Comcast. Martin issued a damning order against the ISP, condemning it for its controversial network management practices and ordering it to stop.
The ruling by the FCC does not include any fines against Comcast. But it requires the company to cease impeding peer-to-peer applications, to tell the FCC how the practice has been used, and to notify customers about other network management practices it adopts in the future.
The FCC order gives Comcast 30 days to implement its conditions, lest the company face interim injunctive relief should it fail to comply. These conditions compel Comcast to:
· Disclose to the FCC details on its network management practices,
· Submit to the FCC a “compliance plan,” outlining specifically what it intends to do to stop those practices, and how it will do so by the end of the year,
· Disclose to the public specifically what network policies it will replace its questionable practices with.
"It was unreasonable for Comcast to discriminate against particular Internet applications, including BitTorrent," Martin wrote in his majority opinion. "They delayed and blocked customers using a disfavored application even when there was no network congestion."
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The ruling by the FCC does not include any fines against Comcast. But it requires the company to cease impeding peer-to-peer applications, to tell the FCC how the practice has been used, and to notify customers about other network management practices it adopts in the future.
The FCC order gives Comcast 30 days to implement its conditions, lest the company face interim injunctive relief should it fail to comply. These conditions compel Comcast to:
· Disclose to the FCC details on its network management practices,
· Submit to the FCC a “compliance plan,” outlining specifically what it intends to do to stop those practices, and how it will do so by the end of the year,
· Disclose to the public specifically what network policies it will replace its questionable practices with.
"It was unreasonable for Comcast to discriminate against particular Internet applications, including BitTorrent," Martin wrote in his majority opinion. "They delayed and blocked customers using a disfavored application even when there was no network congestion."
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