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NY To Probe Broadband Providers Over Internet Speeds (reuters.com)

Posted by timothy on from the weights-and-measures dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a report from The Stack that New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman has begun a probe into the state's three dominant ISPs to assess whether they are actually delivering the service they advertise at the levels promised. From the article: According to leaked documents, sent to Verizon Communications, Cablevision Systems and Time Warner Cable, the New York attorney general asked each firm to hand over copies of the advertising and copy they have provided to consumers regarding internet speeds, along with any testing documents which studied the speed of their service. ... The probe plans to focus on the exchange of data through contractual partnerships between the ISPs and other networks. The AG office suspects that customers who are paying a premium fee for higher internet speeds could be experiencing a disruption to their service due to technical issues brought about by business disputes in these interconnection deals.

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  1. Wrong person to piss off by TheReaperD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It sounds like the New York Attorney General's Netflix keeps getting the loading notification and his HD videos don't play back. This, plus Verizon has reneged on its FiOS rollout to all neighborhoods as contractually required. They only installed in the neighborhoods they wanted and told the state to fuck off on the rest.

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  2. What did their customers pay for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I have no clue, and without competition or regs, I'll likely never know.

    Possibilities:

    A: That the access speed was the advertised rate when nobody else was using it and the phase of the planets was just right. (Sure)

    B: The ability to talk to anybody, anywhere on the Internet at their access speed. (No way is this even possible.)

    C: That any content delivered to their ISP would be accepted gratis and delivered to their customer subject to the access speed limitation. (Should be this way.)

    D: That the ISP would give their customer a fair share of any congested links proportional to their access rate, and that the ISP would publish the percentage of packets making it through this congestion maze. (And that there would be competitive pressure to keep this percentage high.)

  3. FCC Prevue by lazarus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The FCC already requires broadband providers to do this. Most providers have or are implementing a product set called SamKnows to comply. You can read the FCC's 2014 report here or have a look at the FCC's Measuring Broadband America for more info about the program. No, I don't work for the FCC.

    Sounds like the NY Attorney General's office is just making more work for ISPs when they could just ask the FCC for the info. Probably just bullying.

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