Internet providers defend traffic management
Internet service providers like AT&T are making greater efforts to manage traffic on their networks as they seek ways to avoid congestion caused by bandwidth-hogging services like video, industry officials said on Thursday.
Network management of Internet traffic has become a flash point between companies and public interest groups which worry that companies will become the arbiter of what is important or discriminate against certain applications or content. Internet providers say they must engage in reasonable network management due to increasing bandwidth of applications used by consumers and that they are not policing content.
