Comcast does it again
by Claudia Sonea
Can you believe cable giant Comcast? After coming out with just a slap over the hand from the scandal over the control of the Internet traffic, Comcast now is testing its luck again and tries to hamper with the competition on the market as on Wednesday announced a partnership with Vonage.
Now, normally if you’re naïve you would say the partnership doesn’t harm anyone as there are similar arrangements with other Internet companies. Comcast only tries to make sure Vonage's Internet phone service suits its broadband network and everything goes well. Yet, interesting about the deal is that Vonage is the main competitor of Comcast when it comes to voice over IP phone service. Both Louis Mamakos, Vonage Chief Technology Officer, and Tony Werner, Comcast Chief Technology Officer, stated that this doesn’t affect at all the competitions and that they only seek network management solutions that will offer consumers a better service.
Somehow the statement reminds me of the past when, after being exposed by the AP in October last year as controlling users’ access over the Internet, Comcast said that it was in the benefit of the users. In order to decongest traffic on the network they prevented the access of eDonke, Gnutella and BitTorrent, file-sharing networks. In the beginning the cable giant was rather indifferent about what they did, but the consumers’ outrage and the federal investigation made Comcast to work with the Internet Engineering Task Force and other technology companies so that other ways of managing traffic were to be found.
Comcast signed with Warner Bros for the exclusive behind-the-scenes movie footage, mini-movies and trailers of the Dark Knight and extended contract witch CSG. The list of good things happening to the company might continue, but is there no one to stop them from illegal stuff?
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080709/tc_cnet/830110784399867197;_ylt=AjSsysMMNp0kCrotMiC.32as0NUE
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posted by Lucia Adamova
Now, normally if you’re naïve you would say the partnership doesn’t harm anyone as there are similar arrangements with other Internet companies. Comcast only tries to make sure Vonage's Internet phone service suits its broadband network and everything goes well. Yet, interesting about the deal is that Vonage is the main competitor of Comcast when it comes to voice over IP phone service. Both Louis Mamakos, Vonage Chief Technology Officer, and Tony Werner, Comcast Chief Technology Officer, stated that this doesn’t affect at all the competitions and that they only seek network management solutions that will offer consumers a better service.
Somehow the statement reminds me of the past when, after being exposed by the AP in October last year as controlling users’ access over the Internet, Comcast said that it was in the benefit of the users. In order to decongest traffic on the network they prevented the access of eDonke, Gnutella and BitTorrent, file-sharing networks. In the beginning the cable giant was rather indifferent about what they did, but the consumers’ outrage and the federal investigation made Comcast to work with the Internet Engineering Task Force and other technology companies so that other ways of managing traffic were to be found.
Comcast signed with Warner Bros for the exclusive behind-the-scenes movie footage, mini-movies and trailers of the Dark Knight and extended contract witch CSG. The list of good things happening to the company might continue, but is there no one to stop them from illegal stuff?
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080709/tc_cnet/830110784399867197;_ylt=AjSsysMMNp0kCrotMiC.32as0NUE
| by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.<br><br><font size=2>These news are original content from young talents around the world and are selected for you by Chris Cantell.</font><br>
posted by Lucia Adamova
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