The issue focused on the decisions made by Time Warner Cable and Comcast to slow Internet speeds for customers in New York City and Washington, D.C., which had set a national record for download speeds of 1 megabits per second as of July. In New York, the ISPs applied a traffic management method called Video Over Internet Protocol to their traffic that allowed them to force providers to compensate for slower internet speeds by temporarily slowing down the customers' connection to the internet. However, the ISPs did not slow the Internet speeds