Thursday, January 10, 2008

FCC to investigate Comcast blocking complaint

The Federal Communications Commission plans to investigate the network neutrality complaints filed against cable giant Comcast. The investigation will be the agency’s first major test of its network neutrality principles.

The complaint, which was filed in November by public advocacy groups and legal scholars from Yale, Harvard and Stanford, charges Comcast with interfering with its users’ ability to access legal content by cutting off peer-to-peer file-sharing networks such as BitTorrent and Gnutella, as well as business applications such as Lotus Notes.[Ed. note–Despite the fact they are denying it, Comcast does in fact deny subscribers access to peer-to-peer networks. As a matter of fact, just last month they released information stating they would begin blocking access to those services.]

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