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Comcast , the nation’s largest cable TV provider and an ISP to over 14 million broadband subscribers, plans to begin throttling service to some broadband users it deems to be hogging the pipes during times of congestion, Bloomberg reported.

Comcast senior vice president and general manager of online services Mitch Bowling said that the company will monitor traffic “in nearly real time,” and penalize its heaviest users by impeding their connections for up to 20 minutes, dropping them down to DSL-equivalent speeds.

“If in fact a person is generating enough packets that they’re the ones creating that situation, we will manage that consumer for the overall good of all of our consumers,” Bowling told Bloomberg.

Initial reports state that the policing of bandwidth of users would be beginning shortly, although no specific date has yet been announced.