We've covered the battles between ISPs and various large-scale content providers multiple times before. From deliberately throttling Netflix users to older spats that prevented Time Warner customers from watching cable channels they'd legally paid for, these kinds of disagreements are common in America these days. A new report from M-Lab, however, illustrates the degree to which these battles can impact all of an ISPs customers, including those who don't use video on demand services like Netflix. The data speaks for itself. This is not an incidental or minor issue; for almost an entire year Verizon, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable degraded customer performance to the point that the FCC would no longer have classified these connections as "Broadband" connections at all. They do this, according to M-Lab, by simply refusing to fix the problem...



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