Telecommies

At an FCC hearing in February, Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen told the commission that the reset orders were a reasonable method of traffic management during busy usage periods. “Independent research has shown that it takes as few as 15 active BitTorrent users uploading content in a particular geographic area to create congestion sufficient to degrade the experience of the hundreds of other users in that area,” he said. “Bandwidth-intensive activities not only degrade other less-intense uses, but also significantly interfere with thousands of Internet companies’ businesses.”