Mitch Bowling

Mind if I "De-Prioritize" Comcast as My ISP, Then?

John Paczkowski in News on August 21, 2008 at 2:27 pm PT

My apologies. Comcast has made no final decisions about its future network management practices; nor has it committed to slowing the Internet connections of heavy users for up to 20 minutes during network congestion, though Comcast senior vice president Mitch Bowling convincingly told Bloomberg just that on Wednesday. Rather, that technique–which the company prefers to describe as a “de-prioritizing” of heavy user traffic–is one option among the many Comcast is considering.

Mind if I “De-Prioritize” Comcast as My ISP, Then?

John Paczkowski in News on August 21, 2008 at 2:27 pm PT

My apologies. Comcast has made no final decisions about its future network management practices; nor has it committed to slowing the Internet connections of heavy users for up to 20 minutes during network congestion, though Comcast senior vice president Mitch Bowling convincingly told Bloomberg just that on Wednesday. Rather, that technique–which the company prefers to describe as a “de-prioritizing” of heavy user traffic–is one option among the many Comcast is considering.

Comcast Vows to Throttle Customers, Not BitTorrent

John Paczkowski in News on August 20, 2008 at 11:05 am PT

The Federal Communications Commission today released its official order sanctioning Comcast for interfering with its Internet customers’ right to access. And while the order is largely toothless, it is quite critical of the company’s so-called “network management practices” and its laughable efforts to downplay them.