Sprint: Net neutrality means we can’t stamp out download hogs
▻http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/18/sprint_fcc_net_neutrality_throttling
Sprint says America’s new net neutrality rules – which kicked in last week – have forced it to stop throttling download hogs’ mobile broadband connections.
Sprint, the third-largest carrier in America, slashed download speeds for subscribers making “heavy” use of its network. That practice, we’re told, breaks US watchdog the FCC’s net neutrality rules.
“For less than a year, Sprint used a network management practice that applied only at the level of individual congested cell sites, and only for as long as congestion existed. At such sites, we temporarily allocated resources away from the top 5 percent of heaviest users and to the 95 percent of users with normal usage, to try to allocate the effects of congestion more fairly. Once congestion at the site passed, the limitation automatically ended,” Sprint told The Reg today.