Verizon’s Accidental Mea Culpa

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Barryke writes: Verizon has blamed Netflix for the streaming slowdowns their customers have been seeing. It seems the Verizon blog post defending this accusation has backfired in a spectacular way: The chief has clearly admitted that Verizon has capacity to spare, and is deliberately constraining throughput from network providers. Level3, a major ISP that interconnects with Verizon’s networks, responded by showing a diagram that visualizes the underpowered interconnect problem and explaining why Verizon’s own post indicates how it restricts data flow. Level3 also offered to pay for the necessary upgrades to Verizon hardware: “… these cards are very cheap, a few thousand dollars for each 10 Gbps card which could support 5, 000 streams or more. If that’s the case, we’ll buy one for them. Maybe they can’t afford the small piece of cable between our two ports. If that’s the case, we’ll provide it. Heck, we’ll even install it.” I’m curious to see Verizon’s response to this straightforward accusation of throttling paying users (which tech-savvy readers were quick to confirm). Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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