Data Throttling Quotes

Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.

Internet service providers should not be permitted to block, throttle and unfairly favor certain content, applications, services or devices.

Net Neutrality is Internet freedom.

No one wants to have 300 channels on your wireless device.

In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn't have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging.

Net-neutrality proponents howled when Comcast started throttling traffic from BitTorrent, a bandwidth-hogging program people use to swap video files. The Federal Communications Commission sided with the open-Internet folks, ruling that Comcast could not selectively choke off traffic.

There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'

Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit.

Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the 'last mile' of the network over which data flows into a person's home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years.