<div dir="ltr"><br>There is a really interesting article today in the Australian Financial Review:<br><br>ACCC takes aim at internet slowdowns<br><br>PUBLISHED: 11 HOURS 40 MINUTES AGO | UPDATE: 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES AGO<br>JAMES HUTCHINSON<br>
<br>Telstra and other internet service providers could be investigated if they slow down file-sharing programs like BitTorrent in favour of providing their own video content to customers, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says.<br>
<br><snippage><br><br>“Clearly there is a vertical integration issue where internet service providers can control what comes down their pipe and obviously if, unrelated to the reports about Telstra, we see that ISPs were using that technology to influence their own content over other content then that would be of concern to us,” he [Sims] said.<br>
<br>from<div><a href="http://www.afr.com/p/technology/accc_takes_aim_at_internet_slowdowns_DNxYfamGg7IZdqO1IcZC1L">http://www.afr.com/p/technology/accc_takes_aim_at_internet_slowdowns_DNxYfamGg7IZdqO1IcZC1L</a><br><br><br>
</div><div style>The article cites a Sandvine statistic that P2P file sharing app traffic is of the order of 35% these days. From my memory, that is significantly less than the proportion we have seen in the past.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Narelle Clark</div><div style>President, Internet Society of Australia</div></div>