{"id":520861,"date":"2010-04-08T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100408\/0141558932.shtml"},"modified":"2010-04-08T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:33:00","slug":"verizon-ceo-in-a-state-of-denial-pretends-broadband-is-great-but-also-says-he-wants-to-throttle-heavy-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520861","title":{"rendered":"Verizon CEO In A State Of Denial: Pretends Broadband Is Great… But Also Says He Wants To ‘Throttle’ Heavy Users"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would appear that Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg is in a bit of denial. While it’s true that there are many different ways to rank broadband by country — and pretty much all of them are flawed — in general the US tends to rank about 15th on a variety of different studies. But Seidenberg is hearing none of that. When asked about it, he insists that the US is clearly number one in broadband<\/a> and that it’s “not even close.” Though, as you read the details, he sort of switches back and forth between wireless and wireline — and in wireless, it’s at least a little<\/i> trickier. But, no matter what, the “not even close” statement is not even close to reality.<\/p>\n

What may be even bigger, though, was Seidenberg’s separate claim that the company is going to throttle video users<\/a>:<\/p>\n


\nBut when we now go after the very, very high users, the ones who camp on the network all day long every day doing things that — who knows what they’re doing — those are the —<\/p>\n

MURRAY: It’s video, right? I mean, it’s video.<\/p>\n

SEIDENBERG: But those are the people we will throttle and we will find them and we will charge them something else.
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Now that’s a pretty questionable statement. Just as the government is having a big showdown<\/a> over net neutrality, to have the CEO of one of the main telcos saying he’s planning to throttle video users — something that Verizon lobbyists have been saying would never happen — seems like a potentially damaging slip up.<\/p>\n

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