• by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, April 20, 2010

Looks like Comcast wasn’t the only broadband provider accused of throttling peer-to-peer traffic. RCN also just agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of degrading service.

Broadband advocacy group Public Knowledge quickly issued an incensed statement. “We learned today that another Internet Service Provider, this time RCN, was throttling its customers Internet traffic,� said president Gigi Sohn. “This is yet another example showing why the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) needs to be given the authority over Internet access service.�