Comcast opens up about how it manages traffic - USATODAY.com

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:06 PM EDT

Article Source: USA Today

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Managing online traffic can be risky stuff. Just ask Comcast.

The cable TV giant came under fire recently when it slowed a "peer-to-peer" transmission of the King James Bible sent as a test by an Associated Press reporter.

At two special hearings held by the Federal Communications Commission — one at Harvard and another last week at Stanford — the company was excoriated for delaying peer-to-peer traffic.