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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, @10:47AM (7 children)
Trump's not doing much of anything significant that can't be undone by whoever gets the office next time. Hillary's badness would have made it to law rather than executive orders.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @12:19PM (1 child)
"Trump's not doing much of anything significant that can't be undone by whoever gets the office next time."
You'd be surprised how expensive it can be to win back allies you took a shit on for 4-8 years.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 14 2018, @01:47PM
I wouldn't put money on that. It's not like they're spoiled for choices in alliances with superpowers.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday September 14 2018, @02:55PM (1 child)
The most difficult thing to regain is how we are perceived and/or trusted by other countries.
The fact is, we have broken treaties thanks to Trump(Iran in particular). And he constantly threatens to not hold up other agreements. (NATO)
How can we regain the trust of our allies, if any time we switch presidents, they can break all existing treaties? Our word on those treaties will not be worth shit.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 14 2018, @03:26PM
Allies who don't hold up their ends of treaties are not allies, they're mooches and not worth associating with. Treaties that were first broken by other parties are no longer binding to us.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday September 15 2018, @05:23AM (2 children)
You really think a Republican Congress would have passed whatever laws she wanted passed?
Personally I like governments that are hamstrung and one way is having different parties in control of different parts of government.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 15 2018, @11:11AM (1 child)
I think she had the backroom political skills to get half a dozen Republicans to flip on votes that mattered to her, absolutely.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday September 15 2018, @02:58PM
Perhaps, not that it matters now.