p2pnet news view P2P | Freedom:-While Bell Canada launched a frontal assault on the wholesale competition by  forcibly throttling customers, it’s now opened two new assault lines aimed at back-dooring wholesale  business models and opening another anti-competitive fight that could  see all wholesalers customers not only throttled, but limited to only  2-gigs to 60-gigs per month.

Paul of Acanac Inc, a wholesale ISP, says on dslreports »»»

Just got back from the conference and here is what Bell is proposing.

512Kbps service will be limited to 2GB per month
5Mbps service will be limited to 60GB per month

They did not disclose what the overcharges will be, but don’t expect  it to be cheap. Simply put DSL as we know it right now will no longer exist.

We find this proposal to be totally unexceptable [sic]. The only good news  is that it will not affect current clients. So as long as you don’t  change ISP’s you can keep your current unlimited connection. Bell proposes to start shadow billing in October and usage based billing in Jan of 2009.

This has given me a new sense [of] urgency to setup our own equipment at the CO. I will be approaching a few other ISP in the next little while to see if we can come to some type of agreement. We prefer not to do this alone.

As for having control of the profile: They hope to offer us this ability towards the end of the year.

Best Regards,
Paul
www.acanac.ca

So not only is Bell Canada trying to throttle the competition, it’s now trying to force it to use the same bandwidth limits as its own Bell Not-So-Sympatico service.

In other words, it’s going to try and force all competing ISP’s to offer the exact same packages Bell itself offers.

I see this (and I think others do as well) as clearly trying to end all wholesale competition.

No more unlimited internet.

No more unique business models from ISP’s such as Teksavvy, Acanac, Electronic Box, et al.

With this move Bell will effectively turn all wholesale ISP’s into mini-Bells.

Will we see another CRTC fight?

Will CAIP fight through the CRTC or through court?

Will the ISP’s band together and file with the Competition Bureau and the CRTC?

Does Bell toll for all the wholesale ISP’s?

We could very well be seeing the start of their demise and the end of a business model under which fair competition is the standard.

Definitely stay tuned …

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