The U.S. Department of Justice is conducting an investigation of data cap policies of cable operators. According to various media reports, the DOJ is looking at whether tiered data plans are anti-competitive if the cable operators offers their own video service over IP. No official statements on the investigation so far. http://www.usdoj.gov
U.S. Department of Justice Investigates Cable Data Caps
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about Cable. Here is what it replaced:
LMDS / MMDS served 1998–2000. What ultimately replaced it?
LMDS / MMDS fixed broadband over microwave: rooftop antennas linked to line-of-sight base stations in the 2 GHz (MMDS) or 28/31 GHz (LMDS) bands, but rain fade and line-of-sight limits capped reach. Its job passed to Cable — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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June 13From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.