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Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

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Re: Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

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Does Sprint sell video chat? I don't understand the anticompetitveness angle. Voice calls are free on cell phone networks, and Skype users pay for data. How would Sprint profit from giving its users a bad Skype experience? Something doesn't add up.

If they throttle high-bandwidth applications they can provide less bandwidth and save money, I'm not surprised at all this is happening now that net neutrality is out the window.

Re: Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

#22

Does Sprint sell video chat? I don't understand the anticompetitveness angle. Voice calls are free on cell phone networks, and Skype users pay for data. How would Sprint profit from giving its users a bad Skype experience? Something doesn't add up.

>Voice calls are free on cell phone networks

Since when?

Re: Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, that was phased out when they merged infrastructures with Microsoft’s existing, post-merge.

Anyone know why they phased that out? Seems like a performance benefit and not many downsides I can think about warranting removal.

Definitely is about mobile, where users' devices are frequently not actively running the app at the same time.

Skype used to have a ton of issues with certain features requiring both parties be online. For instance, since it was peer-to-peer, sharing pictures and/or file attachments would fail if you weren't online at the same time as the other person, and of course, you were subject to the their upload speed for you (and each other person in a chatroom) to download it.

Re: Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

#26

I sure hope the FTC does something about this!

Another agency, the FCC, was founded on the premise that we need to ensure some communicators don't degrade the communications of others unintentionally. Spectrum needs management. It's funny we lack the same conviction when ITCs actively degrade each other...

What's an ITC?

Re: Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

#28

I sure hope the FTC does something about this!

Another agency, the FCC, was founded on the premise that we need to ensure some communicators don't degrade the communications of others unintentionally. Spectrum needs management. It's funny we lack the same conviction when ITCs actively degrade each other...

With Democrats in control of the House, they can pass Net Neutrality and put some pressure on the Senate. Or package in with a spending deal.

Re: Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone know why they phased that out? Seems like a performance benefit and not many downsides I can think about warranting removal.

Definitely is about mobile, where users' devices are frequently not actively running the app at the same time. Skype used to have a ton of issues with certain features requiring both parties be online. For instance, since it was peer-to-peer, sharing pictures and/or file attachments would fail if you weren't online at the same time as the other person, and of course, you were subject to the their upload speed for you…

Not that it's any more reliable now.

Re: Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

#30

My Zoom meetings via CenturyLink have become progressively worse since Net Neutrality bit the dust. Anyone else feel the same?

Use Zoom a lot. Haven’t noticed anything. Have Fiber if it matters.

Centurylink has mediocre peering via IPv4, but decent peering via IPv6 (which seems to be caused by peering with Hurricane Electric on IPv6 only).
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