Sentences with phrase «by slowing internet»

Federal officials have sued AT&T, the nation's second - largest cellular carrier, alleging that it deceived millions of customers by selling them supposedly «unlimited» data plans that the company later «throttled» by slowing Internet speeds when customers surfed the Web too much.

This problem is usually caused by slow internet connections.

This may be caused by a slow Internet connection or congestion on the Internet.

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Thousands of electronic comments submitted to the FCC's website contain identical, duplicated messages that favor rolling back the 2015 rules, which were intended to protect websites and online services from being slowed or blocked by Internet service providers.

In addition to getting rid of the potential for so - called fast and slow lanes on the internet, as allowed by a federal court last year, the proposal would provide consumers with stronger privacy protections.

The most common IT problems experienced by workers are slow running systems and equipment, failures in internet connection, outdated kit, and software and equipment not being ready for a new starter.

And a report by iResearch Consulting Group shows that growth in China's Internet game market slowed the most in 2010.

«Because our no - throttling rule addresses instances in which a broadband provider targets particular content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices, it does not address a practice of slowing down an end user's connection to the Internet based on a choice made by the end user,» the FCC's Open Internet Order says.

Last year, a study by city Controller Scott Stringer found households with slow or no access to speedy Internet tend to live in poorer neighborhoods across the Bronx, central Brooklyn and East Harlem and the Lower East Side.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is running against Eliot Spitzer for Comptroller, last week released a report indicating that 75 percent of New York City public school have Internet speeds 100 times slower than the national goal set by President Obama for 2020.

Tiffany Zhou of the EducationSuperHighway told the panel 98 percent of schools will need to upgrade their slow internet connections to fiber - optic by 2018.

Start - ups that can't outbid big competitors might see delivery of their Internet services slowed by comparison.

According to a recent report by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, broadband Internet service in the U.S. is not just slower and more expensive than it is in tech - savvy nations such as South Korea and Japan; the U.S. has fallen behind infrastructure - challenged countries such as Portugal and Italy as well.

As anyone with a slow Internet connection has noticed, JPEGs can be compressed so that a rough version appears right away, followed by progressive refinements.

Helmed by veteran TV director Mimi Leder in somehow small - screen - friendly Panavision (that she manages to make her panoramic establishing shots look like the stock transitions in any episode of «Hart to Hart» should be included in a textbook somewhere), the picture goes through the motions — from discovery of the peril by naïfs to the involvement of the Internet to the slow - in - coming participation of the powers that be — of a genre most recently (and faithfully) resurrected by The Day After Tomorrow.

High teacher turnover, slow and unreliable Internet connections, and the loss of art and music programming are all serious issues, but the most significant barrier faced by many rural districts is the rapidly growing cost of transporting students to and from school.

WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.

Time Warner Cable's usage penalty would take the unlimited service we enjoy today (albeit slow compared to other nations), and make Internet more like cell phones, where you get overcharged by companies making record profits.

BY PHONE: If you have multiple cats, slow internet OR don't have an email address or are uncomfortable with online transactions, you may reach Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 at 1-800-838-3006; select option «1», to be directed to a person in the «Sales» department.

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Italians have been slow to embrace online travel purchases for diverse reasons: broadband penetration is low and still relatively expensive; they are by nature hesitant to release personal information over the Internet; traditional offline players have powerful ties and still sell the vast majority of travel related products; tour operators have been cautious about challenging conventional distribution channels; credit card usage is still relatively low and most credit cards have limited spending margins per month and the country's population is aging rapidly, resulting in slower adoption of the Internet than other markets.

The free WiFi internet in the room was not very reliable and very slow, even by low Bali standards, at only 1.2 Mbps average speed, so don't plan on streaming video or doing much work!

Due to differing ranges of Internet connections available to client systems used by the online users ranging from modems to local area networks, N05CFTC has to be able to operate over network connections as slow as 32 kilobits per second (or even slower), or as fast as 100 megabits per second (or faster).

With games however it was a one - two punch of no mainstream gaming culture and internet so slow it seemed powered by hand - crank.

Conor shared that he can save $ 50 per month by lowering to a slower internet speed.

Put out by Aptivate, Loband is a free service that simplifies web pages in order to make them download faster over slow Internet connections.

Another thing I have heard is that by using a tool like this your ISP is likely to cut / slow down your internet, any truth to this?

It's an essential part of the internet, but DNS servers provided by ISPs are often slow and unreliable.

The round was led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Lakestar, Rocket Internet's Global Founders Capital, Slow Ventures, BoxGroup, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures, and Cherry Ventures.

Players who have a slow internet connection can buy the title and pre-loaded it days earlier so that they don't have to wait until it is officially released by the end of this week.

South Korea is hitting Facebook with a fine for intentionally limiting user internet connections by illegally rerouting user connections to slower networks overseas without telling them in 2016 and...

@andrew beaver - the NACA program is notorious for slow and bad service, according to what I've read by googling on the internet.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.