throttling

But throttling is just a stopgap measure because unlike telephone data, Internet transmissions are growing exponentially!

Canadian high speed isn’t 2009

Source throttling is indeed a legitimate traffic engineering technique.

An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Defense played well, especially in throttling the Bengals at times.

Titans vs Bengals « Michael in Nashville 2004

Indeed, the ISPs argue that their judicious use of "throttling" - scaling back the bandwidth available to the heaviest users - levels the playing field for ordinary customers.

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The report: “Deep Packet Inspection: The End of the Internet as We Know It?” highlights the use of DPI equipment by Comcast in throttling P2P traffic, in Cox’s traffic prioritization scheme, the role DPI played in NebuAd’s plans to monitor web surfing in order to deliver advertising, and the use of such equipment to introduce consumption-based broadband programs.

DPI Doesn’t Kill The Open Internet, Carriers Do 2009

La Forge was revisiting the idea of throttling Rasmussen, and damn the consequences.

Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

La Forge was revisiting the idea of throttling Rasmussen, and damn the consequences.

Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

The really important part of the story is here: ... the CRTC also announced it was opening a new probe into the larger issue of throttling, which is also done by other large internet service providers such as Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Inc. Interested parties will have until Feb. 16 to submit their thoughts and a public hearing will be held on July 6 in Gatineau, Que.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: November 2008 Archives 2008

Even as Sprint touts its fully unlimited plans, it said last week that it plans to place limits on its prepaid arm, Virgin Mobile, that would slow down the connection of any user who exceeds 2.5 gigabytes of data a month, a practice known as throttling.

CNET News.com 2011

In 2005, Netflix acknowledged that it employed an unpopular practice known as throttling.

CNET News.com 2011

The FTC’s $60 million settlement with AT&T, announced in 2019, resolved allegations that the wireless provider failed to adequately disclose to its unlimited data plan customers that, if they reach a certain amount of data use in a given billing cycle, AT&T would reduce—or “throttle”—their data speeds to the point that many common mobile phone applications, such as web browsing and video streaming, became difficult or nearly impossible to use

FTC Sends Refunds to Former AT&T Wireless Customers Who Were Subject to Data Throttling Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition 2024