"Comcast to slow Net service for some users" by Bloomberg News | August 21, 2008
WASHINGTON - Comcast Corp. plans to slow Internet service to its heaviest users during periods of congestion, after regulators ordered the company to devise a new method for managing its Web traffic.
The top Internet speeds for targeted customers will be reduced for periods lasting 10 to 20 minutes, keeping service to other users flowing, Mitch Bowling, Comcast's senior vice president and general manager of online services, said yesterday.
--more--"So that's why that hourglass keeps turning, huh?
They can collect all your records for the government but they can't make their systems work?
Where did all those profits go?
