“The site, which usually downloads in around 3.5 seconds, took nearly twice as long to appear, according to Keynote Systems, a mobile and Internet monitoring firm. The slowdown lasted up to 30 minutes, starting at around 12:05 pm,” Kopytoff reports. “‘There wasn’t any significant outage; it just slowed down,’ said Shawn White, senior director of external operations for Keynote.”
Kopytoff wonders, “Who knows whether Verizon’s Web site slowdown is a precursor of things to come?”
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