By Martin Lariviere
We have not posted on bandwidth hogs in a long time, but this month has seen some interesting developments in how network providers price their services and manage their traffic. One comes from Verizon Wireless (VZ), which finally got the iPhone from Apple (AAPL) and now threatens to throttle heavy users (Verizon Wireless to Throttle Data Speeds for Mobile Bandwidth Hogs, Feb 3, PC Magazine).
Customers who use ?an extraordinary amount of data? and fall within the top 5% of Verizon data users might be subject to reduced data throughput speeds. The throttling will occur periodically during the current and next billing cycle at peak times and in locations with high demand, Verizon said in a statement.
First, I don?t know who coined the term ?throttling? for giving lackluster service to a handful of customers (I first heard it in reference to Netflix (NFLX) slowing down how
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