Now its Cox Communications' turn on the hot seat.
Cox, the nation's fourth-largest cable company, has been interfering with internet traffic in the same way as Comcast , the nation's largest cable company, according to a new study being called the most authoritative of its kind to date.
The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany tested the internet connections of some 8,175 internet users around the world and found evidence of internet blocking at three service providers: Comcast and Cox in the U.S., and Starhub in Singapore.
The study, which was first reported by the Associated Press, found that 62 percent of the 788 Comcast subscribers who participated in the study had their connections blocked, while 54 percent of the 151 Cox subscribers polled had their service affected.
In an interview with the A.P., Robb Topolski, a former Intel engineer who first noticed Comcast's blocking last year, call the study the most authoritative of its kind to date.
The study's results appear to directly contradict Comcast's claim that it manages traffic only "during periods of heavy network traffic." Network connections were affected relatively equally at all hours of the day and night and on weekends.
The study's results add new fuel to an already burning debate over whether internet service providers should be allowed to block or degrade legal traffic on their networks. Comcast has come under sharp critic ...
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