T-Mobile Will Throttle Data from Torrents | DataMashup

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-08-18

Summary:

"Torrenting is rampant; of both legal and illegal content. And some 70 percent of Internet users think that’s just fine. However, T-Mobile is not so supportive. TMONews discovered a memo that outlines the carrier’s plan to clamp down on users who would use their unlimited 4G/LTE plans for peer-to-peer file sharing.  The carrier defines throttling as offering customers a maximum speed range from 50 to 128 Kbps, which doesn’t even meet the FCC’s 1999 definition of broadband. So, basically, really, really slow ..."

Link:

http://www.datamashup.info/t-mobile-will-throttle-data-from-torrents/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.p2p oa.policies

Date tagged:

08/18/2014, 16:43

Date published:

08/18/2014, 12:43