FCC Chief Seeks Action Against Comcast

Philadelphia Inquirer, July 12, 2008
By Bob Fernandez

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, staking out new regulatory ground on the Internet, said that he would seek an enforcement action against Comcast for slowing down heavy Internet users who were downloading movies and other large data files.

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