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FCC doesn't buy Verizon's throttling rationale, wants all carriers to explain themselves |
August 10, 2014
On Friday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler dismissed Verizon’s reasoning for throttling certain mobile broadband users, and announced that the Commission was questioning other mobile carriers’ throttling policies as well, Reuters reports.Verizon’s policy, which it announced in late July and plans to put into effect in October, would throttle the top 5 percent of LTE users with unlimited data plans when its network is under heavy loads. The carrier noted that data speeds would return to normal when network traffic eases.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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