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30.07.08, 03:39
Washington -- AT&T bans wireless phone subscribers from using file-sharing applications and threatens to terminate service of anyone caught doing so, the company told an FCC official on Friday.
"AT&T's terms of service for mobile wireless broadband customers prohibit all uses that may cause extreme network capacity issues, and explicitly identify P2P file sharing applications as such a use," said Robert Quinn, AT&T's senior vice president of federal regulatory affairs.
Quinn's disclosure came in a letter to FCC Republican member Robert McDowell, who had asked about AT&T's policy regarding P2P traffic over its wireless network at an FCC forum in Pittsburgh on July 21.
On Friday, the FCC is expected to vote that Comcast Corp. "secretly degraded" some P2P Internet traffic in violation of FCC policy set in August 2005.
FCC chairman Kevin Martin insists that Comcast has been blocking P2P traffic of BitTorrent users while the cable company claims it delayed only uploads during peak hours to reduce congestion.
AT&T Bans Wireless P2P (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6582213.html)
"AT&T's terms of service for mobile wireless broadband customers prohibit all uses that may cause extreme network capacity issues, and explicitly identify P2P file sharing applications as such a use," said Robert Quinn, AT&T's senior vice president of federal regulatory affairs.
Quinn's disclosure came in a letter to FCC Republican member Robert McDowell, who had asked about AT&T's policy regarding P2P traffic over its wireless network at an FCC forum in Pittsburgh on July 21.
On Friday, the FCC is expected to vote that Comcast Corp. "secretly degraded" some P2P Internet traffic in violation of FCC policy set in August 2005.
FCC chairman Kevin Martin insists that Comcast has been blocking P2P traffic of BitTorrent users while the cable company claims it delayed only uploads during peak hours to reduce congestion.
AT&T Bans Wireless P2P (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6582213.html)