CRTC delays Bell traffic throttling decision
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Bell CAnada is being allowed to continue its anti-consumer traffic shaping activities.
The mainstream media knew about the decision. But it came as news to Tom Copeland, chairman of CAIP (Canadian Association of Internet Providers).
And, “I’ve got a bad feeling in my gut about all of this!” – says TekSavvy CEO Rocky Gaudraul in a dslreports post, going on:
“Bell’s been doing some very silly things of late … I’d hate to see the CRTC look as though they’ve been bought!
“Had a couple recent events of late where I’ve found out some of our LAN connections, which were 100Meg Fibre connections were being fed by T3s! Tell me this is right…. The CRTC has an obligation to keep the monopolize, they’ve given sole rights to areas to, honest, and right now, if anything, it’s looking like the CRTC is becoming a safe haven for doing wrong things.
“High-jacking our Data would have automatically been an RCMP issue, but because it’s a regulated service, oh, we have to stop and let due process take place … How backward is that!?”
The CRTC has given Bell Canada carte blanche to continue treating its users, ordinary people and smaller ISPs, like dirt.
“Bell Canada Inc. will continue throttling the internet speeds of its smaller competitors for at least another few weeks as the CRTC has again delayed its decision on whether the company has broken the law by doing so,” says the CBC.
When p2pnet called Cope for his thoughts, “This is the first I’ve heard of it,” he said.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has previously said it would announce its ruling by the end of October, but today said that wouldn’t happen until sometime in November, says the CBC.
“The CRTC needs more time to consider the matter,” it has the organisation saying.
At issue is Bell’s practice of shackling user accounts with the artificial excuse it’s being forced to do so because of the activities of a very small number of P2P file sharers.
Stay tuned.
dslreports – CRTC delays ruling on Bell’s throttling, October 17, 2008
CBC – CRTC delays ruling on Bell’s throttling, October 17, 2008
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October 18th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Somebody needs to catch Bell in the act of bribing the CRTC. It has long been a corrupt organization and these delays are just fullfilling that view. This issue is black and white. Bell illegally manipulated competitors, they should be forced to pay for this.
Time to check out the CRTC execs and see who’s gotten large bank deposits or a new car recently.
October 18th, 2008 at 7:08 am
time to leave canada this country has the worst internet ANYWHERE
October 18th, 2008 at 7:17 am
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October 18th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Too bad we didn’t get kick Harper out, both the Libs and, our favourite, the NDP are very strongly for net neutrality. Alas, I wish I could blame my own DSL problems on something as simple as throttling instead of ineptitude of local service staff and overselling bandwidth.
Thankfully I was able to extract a cool $400 out of Bell for their last screwup with my VLAN at work.
October 19th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Ah just check out http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17198 and solve the whole thing in one go.