p2pnet - rss feed: Keep on throttling, CRTC tells Bell Canada
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Canadian regulators have decided it’s OK for Bell Canada to continue censoring its customers by bandwidth throttling, and to block Net neutrality efforts.
Fifty-five smaller Canadian ISPs representing, by default, their customers, tried to put a stop to Ma Bell’s traffic shaping practices.
Through CAIP (Canadian Association of Internet Providers), the ISPs asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to order Bell to cease and desist.
However, the CRTC says the companies hadn’t shown their businesses would be irreparably damaged by Bell’s activities.
CIPPIC (Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic) joined the battle, calling for an investigation by Canada’s privacy commissioner saying Bell, “failed to obtain the consent of its retail and wholesale internet customers in applying its deep-packet inspection technology, which tells the company what subscribers are using their connections for”.
The company is using DPI to track down and block the use of P2P applications which, it claims, are congesting its networks, says CIPPIC.
Repeating claims made by others such as CAIP, it says Bell hasn’t only failed to show its network is congested and that its actions are necessary, “but it has also run afoul of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) in doing so”.
The CRTC isn’t expected to release documentation explaining the reasons for its decision until tomorrow.
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:43 am
If it goes this way it is time for the people of canada to boycott Bell Canada and look for alterantive internet.
What about an Internet stricke against Bell in order to reclaim what is a public property: Internet!
May 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I think Bell shouldn’t be aloud to sell Internet anymore.
They have a monopoly and many don’t seem to care.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Good-bye 21st century Canadian businesses! Canada’s future is no longer in manufacturing but had Bell Canada not been allowed to continue throttling and had Bell been actually forced by law to expand it’s national fiber optic network, this would have opened up multi millions of dollars in new investment. The new wave of business is moving towards the Internet, not just entertainment related services but this is the way in which business worldwide is headed. Plus now as the price of oil can only keep increasing, sending sales teams all over the country, to the U.S. and around the world will be replaced by high-speed real time business conferences. Every aspect of the personal sales call will be replaced with Internet based technological conferences, where presentations can be made and questions will be answered.
Presently, there’s really no business model for companies using the Internet other than having a basic and very limited website. The future of business is in replacing the personal sales call with real time conferences via the Internet. But this isn’t just for one business dealing with another big company, thing big–think out of the box. If you want car or home insurance for example, imagine being at home and going on-line having a conference meeting with a sales agent rather than needing to meet the sales person at a physical location. Just having to spend the time traveling to a location to meet with a sales agent is a pain in the butt. But in the future, imagine going to any business on-line in the comfort of your own home and having a real time video conference with a sales person or even dealing with a technician for various appliances/electronics you own!
All this out of the box thinking requires one basic ingredient first, very high speed Internet capability with lots of bandwidth to satisfy both residential and corporate customers. Without this basic ingredient being available, no companies will be investing money to explore 21st century commerce and trade ideas!
The amount of Internet access Bell is offering Canada as a whole is a joke! But all this new CRTC ruling means is that Bell has no motivation to expand its fiber optic network! Throttling is just another way to say the word rationing but all this means is that those companies that want to expand their sales electronically opposed to keeping to a 20th century sales model will leave the country! Business capital will now move very quickly out of the country because of the CRTC ruling, which essentially says that Bell’s Internet capability is going to remain static. It’s the equivalent of the Canadian navy using Sea King helicopters, a 40 year old technology in the age of high tech, super fast and very agile 21st century helicopters!
The CRTC ruling is basically allowing Bell Canada to keep selling it’s crappy Sea King Internet service in the age of countries worldwide ever expanding their fiber optic networks! So basically the CRTC has just lost Canada millions of dollars worth of future investment by companies the would have still remained in Canada had Bell been forced to expand its fiber optic network to meet the future demand of both residential and corporate clients!
Thanks CRTC, you just killed any hope of Canada competing in the 21st century due to your lack of insight! The CRTC just made the future of our Internet look the same way as our health care system is now–rationed! Well, I’m sorry to say, companies will not be staying in Canada anymore if their lifeline to business is going to be rationed! In 3 years from now when the world standard of Internet speed will be 50 Mbs down/ 5 Mbs up, how will Canada be able to compete with a rationed 5 Mbs down/ 800 kbs up? The answer is Canada won’t be able to compete! Thus, the CRTC just killed the future of Canada’s competitiveness in the world of 21st century business; all that future revenue, all those future jobs and all that future tax base is now gone!