Eventually, it learned that it, too, had to limit the bandwidth hogs.

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Now Verizon is offering the iPhone and is also dealing with some of the same network issues of how to control and limit the bandwidth hogs.

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Telecommunications carriers, on the other hand, have gotten their fibers into a twist complaining that net neutrality means they have to carry everyone's traffic and can't raise some providers' bills just because they're bandwidth hogs.

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Some are voracious bandwidth hogs.

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