---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20170727041804.GA2442@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:18:04 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon accused of violating net neutrality rules by throttling video FCC has no comment on petition to investigate Verizon slowing video to 10Mbps. By Jon Brodkin The Federal Communications Commission should investigate whether Verizon Wireless violated net neutrality rules by throttling video applications on its mobile network, advocacy group Free Press says. Free Press is asking people to sign a petition that will be delivered to the FCC. "Late last week Verizon Wireless customers started to notice something suspicious: Videos from Netflix and YouTube were slow," the call for signatures says. "Verizon Wireless couldn't explain why. When reporters asked the wireless giant to comment, the company first said it was just a temporary network test with no impact on user experience. But Verizon later admitted that, temporary test or not, it was indeed 'optimizing' video streams." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/verizons-throttling-of-video-should-be-investigated-by-fcc-petition-says/ -- Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170727042322.GA2474@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:23:22 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Now Says That Throttling Video Is Totally Cool By Rhett Jones Verizon set off alarm bells among net neutrality advocates last week when customers reported that the ISP was throttling Netflix video. If true, that would likely be a violation of current FCC guidelines. Verizon responded that it was just testing throttling technology on all video. On Tuesday, it went a step further and laid out a legal argument for why it can throttle video traffic across its platform anytime it wants. Last week, Verizon Wireless customers noticed that the Netflix speed-test tool indicated that video data was capped at 10Mbps and that cap applied to both "unlimited" and limited plans. With the doomsday environment for net neutrality under the current FCC, this was worrisome. Verizon confirmed to Ars Technica that it was conducting routine tests of throttling on all video on its network. http://gizmodo.com/verizon-now-says-that-throttling-video-is-totally-cool-1797235250 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <e7dc45094ed1f9161282a23dac848c23.squirrel@email.fatcow.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:26:01 -0500 From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com> Subject: AT&T Pushing for 14M FTTH Customers By 2019 as Fiber Build Continues By Diana Goovaerts, CED, July 26. 2017 AT&T is looking to push well beyond its fiber buildout commitment with the Federal Communications Commission to hit 14 million fiber to the premises customers by 2019, CFO John Stephens said in a Tuesday earnings call. As one of the conditions of its DirecTV acquisition, AT&T struck a deal with the FCC to expand its fiber footprint to 12.5 million locations. Most recently, AT&T brought its fiber broadband services to Tulsa, following a rollout in the San Francisco area. All told AT&T expects to add two million locations to its fiber network this year. But looking down the line to that 2019 goal, Stephens reports the operator is on track to handily surpass the 12.5 million figure by some 1.5 million locations. https://www.cedmagazine.com/news/2017/07/t-pushing-14m-ftth-customers-2019-fiber-build-continues?et_cid=6036320&et_rid=652835436&location=top&et_cid=6036320&et_rid=652835436&linkid=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cedmagazine.com%2fnews%2f2017%2f07%2ft-pushing-14m-ftth-customers-2019-fiber-build-continues%3fet_cid%3d6036320%26et_rid%3d%%subscriberid%%%26location%3dtop -or- http://tinyurl.com/y7nth2wh Neal McLain Neal ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170727044033.GA2745@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:40:33 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Senators Troubled by Twitter 'Glitch' on AT&T Blog Say had roles been reversed, edge would have been outraged By: John Eggerton A pair of Republican legislators say they are concerned by Twitter's blocking of lawful content, in this case an AT&T blog on network neutrality. In a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Tuesday (July 25), Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said they were deeply troubled by reports that Twitter had blocked tweets and retweets of the AT&T public policy blog posted July 11. http://www.multichannel.com/news/social-media/senators-troubled-twitter-glitch-att-blog/414223 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 27 Jul 2017