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YouTube, Netflix Videos Found to Be Slowed by Wireless Carriers
The largest U.S. telecom companies are slowing internet traffic to and from popular apps like YouTube and Netflix, according to new research from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The researchers used a smartphone app called Wehe, downloaded by about 100,000 consumers, to monitor which mobile services are being throttled when and by whom, in what likely is the single largest running study of its kind.
Among U.S. wireless carriers, YouTube is the No. 1 target of throttling, where data speeds are slowed, according to the data. Netflix Inc.'s video streaming service, Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Video and the NBC Sports app have been degraded in similar ways, according to David Choffnes, one of the study's authors who developed the Wehe app.
From January through early May, the app detected "differentiation" by Verizon Communications Inc. more than 11,100 times, according to the study. This is when a type of traffic on a network is treated differently than other types of traffic. Most of this activity is throttling. AT&T Inc. did this 8,398 times and it was spotted almost 3,900 times on the network of T-Mobile US Inc. and 339 times on Sprint Corp.'s network, the study found. The numbers are partly influenced by the size of the networks and user bases. C Spire, a smaller privately held wireless operator, had the fewest instances of differentiation among U.S. providers, while Verizon had the most.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 14 2018, @04:39AM (3 children)
Herbert Hoover. Or are you a Great Depression fan?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday September 14 2018, @08:23AM (2 children)
The parallels between Hoover and Trump are numerous. We just don't have the benefit of hindsight to evaluate Trump yet.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 14 2018, @10:43AM (1 child)
I seriously doubt he's going to manage anything quite so significant as Hoover. The whole reason I've never been especially worried about Trump is he's got little support even within his own party, so there's a very definite limit to how far off the status quo he can take us.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday September 15 2018, @01:31AM
He does seem to have less traction. But arguably, that says more for the people around Trump than it says for Trump himself.