Hey T-Mobile: 2007 Called and it Wants its Net Neutrality Complaint Back

[Commentary] The website TmoNews broke the story that T-Mobile is planning on throttling customers who use bittorrent on their wireless connections. Back in 2007, Comcast decided to start throttling bittorrent as well.

After a formal complaint and investigation, the Federal Communications Commission found that Comcast’s decision to single out bittorrent for blocking violated the open Internet rules that were in place at the time. And yet, strangely, T-Mobile has decided to revive this practice by singling out heavy data users who are making use of peer-to-peer applications.

Which only makes our point that we need strong network neutrality even stronger. This is about what FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler calls the “Network Compact.”