While you don’t often see big companies going after others with the people’s interest in mind, Netflix has been quite clever at poking the Comcast bear, and it has sharpened its stick with the recent release of the mobile app counterpart to their net-testing website Fast.com.
And according to Netflix’s Tech Blog, which explains how their system works, both Apple and Android are game.
While it’s probable that there are other internet providers that fudge the numbers as far as speed goes when advertising, Comcast has been guilty, and Netflix has not been pleased with how the com-giant’s bandwidth policies have been handled.
It’s a battle tactic that goes for a permanent sting, rather than a quick ambush.