Will P2P Soon Be the Scourge of Mobile Networks?
GigaOM, July 21, 2009
By Stacey Higginbotham
Internet service providers view peer-to-peer file-sharing as a bandwidth-eating monster. With that in mind, they have justified tiered pricing, traffic shaping and bandwidth caps all in the name of stopping P2P traffic. Now cellular operators, faced with growing traffic on their mobile broadband networks, are paying closer attention to P2P file-sharing done on their pipes.
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