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Apple Faces New Legal Challenge in UK Over iPhone Throttling
Taking a small trip down technologies memory lane, you may recall that back in 2017 Apple got into some exceptionally hot water when it was found that they were applying updates to iPhone devices that reduced their performance. – Unlike an ageing PC filled with years worth of bloat, your…
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Apple Starts Accepting iPhone Throttling Compensation Claims
You may recall a couple of years ago, it was revealed that Apple had been deliberately throttling the performance of their older iPhone products. After eventually admitting it, while Apple cited it was only done as a means of extending battery lifespans, most users saw this merely as a cynical…
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Apple (Finally) Gets Fined for Throttling Old iPhones
You may recall that around 3 years ago, it was discovered that Apple was, very deliberately, throttling the performance of its older iPhone releases. At the time, the initial reaction was that this was a very cynical move by the company to attempt to get people to adopt their more…
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DELL Denies XPS 15 9570 Issues Despite Multi-User Reports
Performance Throttling Problems Persist Users of DELL‘s XPS 15 9570 laptop have been having GPU-related issues for the past month now. Specifically, stemming from an NVIDIA GPU throttling problem which started with the last 1.4.1 BIOS update. The performance throttling is so bad that it throttles the performance to well…
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FCC Says Netflix Throttling Itself Isn’t Against Net Neutrality
Recently the popular streaming service Netflix admitted that when it comes to mobile phones accessing their system, they reduced the video quality on most mobile networks to help avoid excessive data usage. This caused an uproar given Netflix’s stance on the topic was to support the concept of Net Neutrality…
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Netflix Admits It’s Been Throttling Video for Mobile Streamers for Years
People have always been wary of companies when it comes to mobile data, with rumours T-Mobile was throttling connections for videos that weren’t signed up for their binge service. This seems to be common practise though with Netflix coming out and admitting that it’s been throttling connections for years. Mobile data is…
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YouTube Claims T-Mobile’s ‘Binge On’ Plan is Throttling Videos
T-Mobile has won a host of US customers due to its liberal policy towards internet data usage, selling itself as the nation’s “un-carrier”, with particular plaudits aimed at its Binge On data plan, which allows free streaming of online videos (but at lower resolutions) without eating into customers’ data allowances.…
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Comcast VP Claims Data Caps are Business Policy & Not Technical Necessity
Many of you with home internet plans may have to deal with monthly data caps. For some this cap can be a real pain as a full household streaming and consuming content can easily rack up the gigabytes. While ISPs claim many different reasons to justify their caps, one common excuse…
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AT&T Says NO to the FCC’s $100 Million Throttling Fine
If you read about it, AT&T just got fined last month for allegedly throttling customers with ‘unlimited’ data plan. To sum it up, the FCC saw that AT&T had been “severely” slowing down users while not telling those users about the caps placed on their speed. So, they decided to…
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Comcast and Verizon Lowered Speed to Cogent below 0.5Mbps
New detailed measurements have been released displaying exactly how much throttling of traffic was done by major US ISP’s Comcast and Verizon through to Cogent – a backbone operator of Netflix traffic. As almost everyone in the United States discovered over the span of the last year, traffic through to…
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