CAIP seeks extension for Bell Canada response
p2pnet news view P2P | Freedom:- Bell Canada recently asked for, and was granted, an extension for its newest submission to the CRTC on demands from the association representing 55 of Canada’s smaller ISPs for Bell to stop throttling traffic.
Bell claims P2P file sharers are seriously disrupting traffic flow, forcing it to impose a bandwidth cap.
CAIP (Canadian Association of Internet Providers) wanted the CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) to order Bell to Cease & Desist.
Now it’s CAIP’s turn.
“We’ve asked the CRTC for an extension until July 22,” CAIP chariman and president Tom Copeland (right) told p2pnet, going on »»»
This will allow us to deal with the volume of Bell’s Answer and with new information they’ve presented in that Answer.
Overall, CAIP is still looking at this as a breach of telecom regulation by Bell.
Bell, in contrast, seems to be justifying their actions toward wholesale customers based on what they do to Sympatico customers.
The reason we have regulation of the wholesale supply of access and interconnection is to ensure Canadians have true choice in service providers.
Bell’s actions only homogenize Internet access service, not allow for differentiation.
“Bell is Canada’s largest telephone and telecommunications company,” it boasts. “We provide consumer and business customers with phone and other communication services.”
But, “it fails to point out its services are shackled and it’s been treating its users more like peons than valued customers,” said p2pnet close to the beginning of the Bell vs Its Own Customers debacle.
“Ma Bell in Canada and Comcast in US have been caught red-handed using traffic shaping (throttling) to make sure Net Neutrality never becomes a reality, and to dictate to users —- including smaller ISPs —- what they can and can’t do with services they’ve paid through the nose for,” we said.
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Jon Newton – p2pnet
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