App Offers Personal Net Neutrality Check: Are Your Apps Being Slowed Down?
November 21, 2018
Last December the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal Net Neutrality. The choice could essentially end free and open internet access.
The concept of Net Neutrality requires telecom providers to not discriminate against different types of content. It also keeps carriers from slowing down service so they can charge users more money, and avoiding conflicts of interest such as throttling Netflix or YouTube if they compete with video services offered by the provider.
After the repeal, researchers from Northeastern University and The University of Massachusetts Amherst created a watchdog app called Wehe (iOS, Android).
Wehe lets you know if your carrier is violating net neutrality and how much they're slowing down, or speeding up, certain apps.
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