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Monday, June 9, 2008 12:00 AM

Comcast censors criticisms of itself and Rep. Carney

The telecom and cable operator rejects an ad, run by numerous other stations and newspapers, bringing to light its lawbreaking and the actions of a congressman who receives substantial donations from Comcast.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Tuesday, June 10, 2008 04:38 AM

    @John Witherspoon

    What the Internet provider should be selling you is a committed bandwidth rate - which is a guaranteed bandwidth, you will alway s have at least that much throughput - and a burstable rate, which is the maximum throughput you can have in ideal conditions. The 5Mbps that is hyped today is the burstable rate.

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