FCC urged to investigate Netflix tax Internet - er, hats to broadband providers

Focus on the AT & T

Hats broadband can compromise the objectives of the FCC Net neutrality, the letter suggested and may lead ultimately to practices "anti-competitive and monopolistic." The two groups are particularly critical of new boundaries of the AT & T data.

"Unlike its competitors which caps appear to least nominally related to congestion during periods of peak usage, AT & T seeks to convert plugs in a centre of profit by charging additional costs to customers which exceed the ceiling""," the letter States. And since AT & T will benefit users that exceed its cap, it has a "perverse incentives" to prevent the lifting of the CAP, even though its network capacity increases.

Groups also point out that the new selections of the AT & T appear suspicious weak: "it is known why AT & T has recently announced plugs are, at best, equal to those imposed by Comcast more than two years.". The selections for residential DSL customers are 100 GB of less than these Comcast has seen fit to offer mid-2008. ?

It is a tax of Netflix?

Call the hats they are broadband: A Netflix tax. More specifically, they have a streaming tax designed to penalize users of third-party video services. Examine the evidence:

· A recent study by the NPD Group shows that the share of digital streaming or downloaded movies Netflix was a whopping 61 percent between January and February 2011. Comcast was a distant second with 8% of the market, while Apple, DirecTV and Time Warner, all related to the third to 4 per cent.

· A report of October 2010 by the equipment supplier Canadian broadband that Sandvine shows that Netflix streaming represents more than 20 percent of the traffic during peak hours downstream and is the most active between 8 to 10 h

· Netflix is growing like gangbusters, and nearly $ 24 million subscribers are less likely to rent the films and television programmes by cable and satellite services at the request of providers.

Similarly, if you are AT & T and Comcast, what would you do? ISPs are probably upset that Netflix, as they see it, gets a free ride on their networks.

The solution: data with non-subject fee caps. Since a video stream high definition Netflix uses approximately 2 GB of data per hour, it is not difficult for AT & T DSL subscribers who watch a lot of online movies and television shows to hit 150 GB monthly Cap.

Data, particularly of the AT & T caps, look like as if by chance a tax video streaming. And since most home broadband customers have a few ISP providers to the choice, it is time that the FCC will investigate the situation more closely.