CRTC keeps CAIP in the dark
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- CAIP appears to be on the official CRTC ‘ignore’ list.
Earlier today p2pnet reported the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) is slated to finally release its decision on whether or not to order Bell Canada to stop throttling the accounts of its users.
The ruling will be in response to a CAIP (Canadian Association of Internet Providers) request submitted more than seven months ago, and followed up by scores of interested people and organisations.
“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,” p2pnet quoted the CBC as saying last month.
“The CRTC needs more time to consider the matter.”
But when p2pnet called CAIP chairman Tom Copeland (right) for his thoughts, ‘This is the first I’ve heard of it,” he said.
We got in touch with Copeland again today on the same mission. And guess what?
That’s right. Once again, the media knew but Copeland hadn’t been informed.
Not by the CRTC, at any rate.
In fact, “The commission has yet to tell us that the decision wouldn’t be delivered in October,” he said. “Requests to Commission staff ten days ago asking for clarification have gone unanswered.”
However, CAIP was in the loop this time having been told of the November 20 delivery date by “other channels”.
“CBC, CanWest, and others have received the same info but we don’t know the source of their information,” Copeland told us, adding:
“What we do know is that a couple weeks ago the CRTC chair stated at a public function that the decision had been written.
“That’s the only ‘official’ news we’ve had.”
Meanwhile, “Let’s hope it goes CAIP’s way and the independent ISP could offer unthrottled internet,” posted KChan in a Reader’s Write to our earlier story.
“But with ADSL2+ on the horizon You just know Bell-ER is going to screw independent ISP all over again.
“I wish I was a billionaire so I could start dropping fiber to every home in Canada! And maybe make a hefty profit from it 
”
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p2pnet – CRTC Bell Canada ruling due Thursday, November 19, 2008
p2pnet – CRTC delays Bell traffic throttling decision, October 17, 2008
CBC – CRTC delays ruling on Bell’s throttling, October 17, 2008
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November 19th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
In other news:
CRTC Staff were treated to free unthrottled DSL Internet connections curtsy of Bell Canada.