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View Full Version : AT&T Will Disconnect Wireless P2P Users (IP Democracy)


DrewWilson
August 3rd, 2008, 12:56 AM
AT&T will jettison wireless users that engage in P2P file-sharing over its network, the company said Friday in a letter PDF filed at the FCC (and flagged today by Ted Hearn at Multichannel News). Senior lobbyist Robert Quinn answered a question posed at hearing last week by Republican FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell about the company's policies of managing P2P network traffic on its broadband wireless platform.

More... (http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/003035att_will_disconnect_wireless_p2p_users.php)

(Hat Tip: <a href=http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/131257 target=_blank>slashdot</a>)

See... this is just another reason why I keep thinking that the wireless industry will flop.