FCC Issues Formal Order on Comcast P2P Throttling

Today, the Federal Communications Commission issued its formal order censuring Comcast for throttling P2P traffic as part of its network management practices, requiring the ISP to report, within 30 days, details on how it plans to manage its network. Nothing in the order is terribly new for anyone who paid attention to the Aug. 1 hearing on the topic, but you can bet lawyers from ISPs and public interest groups are right now poring over the FCC’s logic and justification for its action in this case to figure out how far network management practices can encroach on users. Continue reading Stacey Higginbotham’s piece on GigaOM.