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Comcast lies to FCC about blocking file-sharing

Cable copmany Comcast assured the FCC that the company's "network management" practices that involved blocking file-sharing traffic only affected heavy users during peak hours. However, tests found that the Internet service provider blocks such traffic for a majority of users all day, every day, as does fellow ISP Cox. [Torrentfreak]

12:20 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Jackson West
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telecom

Google's fiber-optic plans spur new phone talk

According to Australian tech trade Communications Day, Google may be planning to fund a new trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable, part of its growing in-house telecom network. (A Google rep neither confirmed nor denied the plans.) Why would Google want to lay cable on the ocean floor? Google already owns a considerable fiber network, used for in-house needs at present. But its telecom activities, which now include bidding on wireless spectrum in the United States, arouse suspicions that it might be getting into the phone business. Nonsense. More »

11:49 AM on Fri Sep 21 2007
By Owen Thomas
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