p2pnet - rss feed: Traffic throttling spreads to Japan
p2pnet news P2P:- | Freedom:- The traffic throttling disease has spread to Japan, with P2P users specifically targeted.
The CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) ordered Bell Canada to justify its traffic-shaping practices by June 23.
Yesterday was D-for-Disclosure-Day but, “there seems to be something missing,” said p2pnet in a post revealing the full contents of Bell’s response.
“There doesn’t seem to be any mention of Bell’s Ethernet Network segments. Just about all the information centres on ATM only.”
And, “They are conceding that P2P isn’t the problem, they really don’t know what the problem is (apart from increased growth in usage), which would be better correlated against the amount of new rich media content that has sprung up on the net, in the selected time frame, (YouTube for instance),” noted Shinda on dslreports.
News of Bell’s so-called disclosures doesn’t appear to have yet filtered through to the mainstream media and while we wait, over on Japan, “NTT Communications has announced that their OCN unit would implement a daily upload limit of 30 GB starting August this year,” says TechWhack, going on:
“The company said that the customers who break this limit would first be warned about it. If they continue to cross this limit, their access would be suspended. Downloads however would continue to remain unlimited.”
Only a limited number of their users are going to be affected, the story states.
Does that seem a little familiar?
In Canada P2P application users had been singled out by the country’s largest ISP, Bell Canada, as “bandwidth hogs” responsible for so-called congestion troubles which are, according to Bell, making life difficult for others.
In Japan, “They want to limit the damage to their quality of service to other customers with this limit by restricting users who link to p2p networks to share massive amount of data,” adds TechWhack.
It doesn’t to say if in the traffic throttle and technology to be used is home-grown, or it’s made by the likes of Canada’s Sandvine.
Meanwhile, “Bankers now find the ball back in their court as the proposed $51 billion buyout of Bell Canada won a key court decision late last week,” reports Fortune.
“Shares of Bell Canada’s parent company jumped 7% on Monday after Canada’s Supreme Court overturned a decision to block the deal, the largest leveraged-buyout ever attempted.
“But the deal is far from done. The banks financing the merger, led by Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) and Deutsche Bank (DB), signaled last month they want changes to the original financing plan in light of the credit crunch now roiling the markets. Some analysts predict that the banks want a lower price.
“We expect the banks to play hardball,” the story has analyst Joseph MacKay saying in a research note yesterday. “We believe the banks will push for an 8% cut (in the deal price).”
Stay tuned.
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D-for-Disclosure-Day - Bell Canada response to CRTC throttling probe, June 24, 2008
TechWhack - OCN in Japan to limit uploads by their customers, June 25, 2008
Canada’s Sandvine - Sandvine Not-So-Fairshare business model, June 23, 2008
making life difficult - Bell Canada tries to justify throttling, April 11, 2008
Fortune - Bell Canada’s $51 billion sale hinges on bankers, June 23, 2008
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