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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday December 15 2015, @07:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the telcom-didn't-contribute-enough-to-his-reelection dept.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is asking for Internet service provider customers to contribute results of speed tests to aid an investigation:

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been investigating Verizon Communications Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc. over false advertising for their Internet speeds since October. He's now asking these companies' customers to take an Internet speed test and submit the results to his office. This way he'll get a better idea whether Verizon, Cablevision and TWC are lying to their customers about the speeds they're getting.

Schneiderman's office also sent the three companies requests for more information and copies of any tests they have done on their own Internet speeds, as well as copies of disclosures they have made to their customers. To see whether there's any large discrepancy between what they say they are offering and what they're actually delivering, the AG also asked for feedback from the public.

His office created a new online broadband test at InternetHealthTest.org, which will capture a customer's real bandwidth speeds. After the test is done by the customers of Verizon, Cablevision or TWC, he wants them to submit a screenshot of the results and fill out an online form.

Quick, flip the switch and double everyone's speeds!


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @03:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @03:53PM (#276682)

    i can see the arguments of the ISPs already.
    "i object! all this "speed-testing" is bogging down our network and cannot be construed as a real-life situation of the performance of our network."
    t-hehehe

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @06:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @06:12PM (#276734)

    It's simpler than that. They're already covered by using the phrase "...with speeds up to x." Any speed from zero to X will qualify as what they promised.

    If they stated that the speed would be in range X to Y for a given package, then there'd be something worth testing.

    ISPs should be forced to give a reasonable range of speed for their services, not just an "up to" speed.