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Network Management Doesn t Have to Be Evil

Posted on September 30, 2008

Yesterday Sprint launched its Xohm WiMAX service in Baltimore, the first step toward what could become a nationwide, alternative wireless broadband network. Within a few hours, the blogosphere was in an uproar over the network management practices Sprint had disclosed on its web site. But the issue is about more than Sprint throttling traffic on its network during times of congestion; it s about a consumers right to know what happens to their traffic on the network. The problem rests with the Federal Communications Commission, which in August called out Comcast for managing its Internet t...

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