Democrats finally have 3-2 majority needed to regulate ISPs as common carriers.

FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai::Democrats finally have 3-2 majority needed to regulate ISPs as common carriers.

  • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    38·
    9 months ago

    It has though. Traffic shaping is common, especially on mobile networks where video streams and VPN traffic will get deprioritized and throttled to force lower resolution playback for certain services. Many mobile ISPs are actually pretty open that they do this. In other cases this stuff is done quietly enough that you don’t really notice it is happening. Mobile operators get away with it because people are almost trained to expect mobile networks to be flaky.

    • xenspidey@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      Mobile I believe is exempt anyways. Traffic shaping is a necessity from a network admin perspective. If you allow mobile networks to not have QOS restrictions then there could be times where you wouldn’t be able to make a phone call because everyone around you is streaming 8k videos.