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Comcast packs 'em in at FCC hearing

February 27, 2008 8:59 AM PST – Posted by Jonathan Skillings

Comcast got an earful from critics at Monday's FCC hearing on the campus of Harvard Law School, but did the cable company manage to shut out some unsympathetic folks? That would seem to be the case--Comcast acknowledges that it hired people off the street to stand in line for the meeting, ostensibly just to save places for its employees. But some, apparently, also stayed for the hearing to take up some of the precious few seats and, presumably, displace Comcast foes.

Read the details at Portfolio.com: "Grassroots Support? Or Astroturf?"

Jonathan Skillings is managing editor of CNET News, based in the Boston bureau. He's been with CNET since 2000, after a decade in tech journalism at the IDG News Service, PC Week, and an AS/400 magazine. He's also been a soldier and a schoolteacher. E-mail Jon.
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by Joe Nova February 27, 2008 12:40 PM PST
Seems to me that the higher-ups at Comcast are a little nervous. They should be.
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by abbottpark February 27, 2008 4:49 PM PST
They have been slowing down our internet connection based on certain websites. This is illegal.
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by Elidine February 28, 2008 4:56 AM PST
Their trashing our rights....TRASHING! Hack the Planet!!
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by BtmnHatesRbn February 28, 2008 6:23 AM PST
Okay, Dade. Don't have a crash override after your zero cool bottoms out with some acid burn, okay, Lord Nikon?
by RTFM March 5, 2008 12:02 PM PST
They are. Not "their"
by The_Decider March 1, 2008 2:01 PM PST
It is amusing how many people really don't understand what is going on.

QOS on a private network is totally different then net neutrality. I
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by March 1, 2008 2:19 PM PST
We're lucky enough to have an alternative where we live (south of Boston). Verizon FiOS just became available and we are scheduled to make the switch from Comcast for TV, Internet and telephone.

Comcast seems desperate as they are flooding the TV with ads but to lure users away from DirectTV with no reference to Verizon FiOS. They must know they are way behind the technology as Verizon strings more and more fiber optic in towns around our area. They came in late; but they came in with FIOS and are so busy they can barely keep up with people switching from Comcast.
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