p2pnet - rss feed: Bell Canada traffic throttling ruling delayed
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Canadians won’t, after all, be learning whether or not the CRTC (Canadian Radio- Television and Telecommunications Commission) will this month order Bell Canada to halt its traffic throttling activities.
The company, Canada’s largest ISP, has been using P2P file sharing as an excuse to drastically limit the bandwidth of all its customers.
CAIP (the Canadian Association of Internet Providers) filed a submission with the CRTC demanding that Bell be told to stop its so-called bandwidth management activities.
News of the CRTC’s decision probably won’t now arrive until October.
Bell, now under new management, has completely ignored its customers, smaller ISPs such as the 55 represented by CAIP and individual users both, and continues to insist its actions are fully justified.
The company uses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) techniques supplied by Canada’s Sandvine, which also caters to Comcast, Bell’s US opposite number which was recently ordered to halt its own traffic shaping practices.
Bell is now in the process of trying to rebrand itself in a TV campaign.
“Thankfully, under new its ownership, Bell Canada is giving the boot to the tacky beaver duo it’s been using as figureheads, together with the late and unlamented Emily,” said p2pnet, adding:
“Beavers are best known for their natural trait of building dams,” says the Wikipedia. Undoubtedly, that inspired Bell to dam the bandwidth of ISP clients and people with Sympatico accounts in what’s turning out to be a major business and PR disaster. ‘With the tag lines “La vie est Bel” in Quebec and “Today just got better” in the rest of the country, Canada’s largest phone company hopes to reposition itself against formidable competitors in the wireless, TV, Internet and land line communications market,’ says the Globe and Mail.
“It might be a better idea for Bell to try to reposition itself as a company which genuinely cares about the people who keep it in business instead of routinely treating them like shit.”
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August 15th, 2008 at 6:41 am
It’s not Sandvine, it’s Ellacoya, where Bell has a share.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Bell must need more time to bribe the CRTC. No other reason to delay such a common sense decision other than to figure out how to hand this one to Bell. I wonder what bullshit they will come up with for the reasoning behind their decision. This one is going to Bell, sadly. As much as I agree and protest that Bell’s claims are full of bullshit and lies, the CRTC is undoubtedly in their pockets and is never there for the better of Canadians. First, it should NOT take this long, especially since Bell still can’t prove their ‘claims’, and any claims they have made along with the ‘data’ that sides with them have all been debunked by everyone in the know. Secondly, the CRTC would of sided with the wholesalers on the injunction if they were willing to help us as this whole ordeal is costing providers like TekSavvy a lot of money. The longer the CRTC delays this, the more its going to cost wholesalers money. Bell has this one in the bag folks, the CRTC is only there for big industry, nothing else.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Spike may be correct on this one. The CRTC could make a decision that benefits 99.9% of the Canadian population, but they likely won’t. Why? The other 0.1% pays too damn well, that why. It is the same old never ending story. There will never ever be a shortage of greedy opportunists in suits situated in lofty positions waiting and ready to cash in at a moments notice. Money equals power and power equals control, a fact which will never change so long as our society continues to embrace capitalism as a way of life. Freedom? Liberty? Morality? Sadly these ideals have become nothing more than illusions, a fact that at least for a few is becoming clearer and clearer with each new proposal that gets passed into law. Just look to the USA post 9/11 if you need examples.