Right as it leaves the starting gate, there might already be a bit of controversy surrounding Sprint’s 4G WiMax offering, XOHM.
Silicon Valley Insider did a bit of digging through the XOHM policy agreement, and came across this little gem:
“To ensure a high-quality experience for its entire subscriber base, XOHM may use various tools and techniques designed to limit the bandwidth available for certain bandwidth intensive applications or protocols, such as file sharing.”
Looks like Sprint is giving themselves a bit of leeway to keep any bandwidth hungry protocols — such as BitTorrent, or Skype — from clogging up the pipes. Sorry Sprint - Comcast tried it, and you just can’t do that. No one likes it when a few people bog down the network for everyone else, but no one wants service providers quietly limiting the performance of their favorite applications, either.
Be it that the FCC gets wind of this and holds true to their previous decisions, Sprint may have to change their game plan. If they follow in Comcast’s foot steps, this may mean bandwidth chokes for the heaviest users.
This kind of stuff really drives me nuts.
You pay for a service, that only exists because of its bandwidth advantage, only to got your service throttled if you take advantage of said bandwidth.
What do they think people want to used this stuff for? Weather reports? Current speeds are just fine for crap like that.
I thought the ruling with Comcast was based on their doing it without notifying their customers, if this is in the user agreement then I think they can get away with it. Although obviously they will be ticking off customers in the process.
this isn’t a big surprise… maybe I can wait for it to come to Chi-town
so, if you ran the network what would YOU do?
YEP , each time I try to file share my modem auto resets and it loses power, I thought it was a coincidence but its happen each an every time for the last 2 weeks.
Who has the best speeds???? and bandwidth to go with???