Comcast Providers: A Very Brief History Of Telecommunications

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"Telecommunications - the term 'telecommunications' means the transmission, between and among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received,"* Telecommunications technology has evolved by leaps and bounds over the past 30 years. In the early eighties the first mobile telephone was introduced, then the first full color 2-way video conferencing service, followed by fiber optic cables – capable of 20 million bits per second (300,000 phone calls).
The nineties brought us the World Wide Web, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 56 kbps modems, the Internet 2 – university campuses connected at 1 Gbps through SONET and ATM connections, and ADSL-lite …show more content…

They were meant to "encourage broadband deployment and preserve and promote the open and interconnected nature of the public internet" by stopping companies like AT&T and Comcast from blocking devices or services.
Comcast customers in 2007 discovered that their provider was throttling the speeds on BitTorrent, a popular peer-to-peer file sharing service. After numerous complaints were filed with the FCC, Comcast was served an order to stop throttling the bandwidth and disclose to its customers how their traffic was managed on Comcast’s network. Comcast agreed to the order and contested the order in court.
The commission proposed expansive regulations on broadband providers in October of 2009 in hopes of creating network neutrality. What is net neutrality, “At its simplest, net neutrality holds that just as phone companies can’t check who’s on the line and selectively block or degrade the service of callers, everyone on the internet should start on roughly the same footing: ISPs shouldn’t slow down services, block legal content, or let companies pay for their data to get to customers faster than a