Bell Canada says ‘Thanks’ to the CRTC
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Bell Canada is laughing.
It reckons it’s received a solid gold endorsement from Canadian regulator the CRTC.
“After a long delay, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) yesterday denied the CAIP (Canadian Association of Internet Providers) request that Bell Canada immediately stop the traffic-shaping practices it adopted for its wholesale Gateway Access Service,” said a p2pnet post earlier today.
But in response to a CBC suggestion that the CRTC supports Bell’s traffic throttling, “Absolutely not,” Leonard Katz, who’s the CRTC vice-chairman, declares, adding »»»
In fact, someone told me Bell put out a press release that said the commission upheld its position that network management practices are a fundamental right of theirs. That’s not what we said at all.
So what did Bell Canada have to say on the CRTC ruling, exactly?
Here’s Bell spokesman Mirko Mr 5% Bibic »»»
OTTAWA, Nov. 20 2008 — Bell welcomes today’s decision from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) allowing the company to continue to manage Internet bandwidth on its network. The Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) had asked the Commission to order Bell to cease its network management practices.
“We are pleased that the Commission has agreed there is no need to intervene in the management of broadband networks,” said Mirko Bibic, Bell’s Senior Vice President, Regulatory and Government Affairs. “This is good news for Internet users across Canada who benefit from better managed networks.”
Today’s decision follows an interim decision by the CRTC last May denying a CAIP request for an injunction ordering Bell to immediately cease and desist managing wholesale traffic on its Internet network pending a full investigation into the issue.
Employed by Internet service providers across North America, bandwidth management is an important element used by Bell to manage capacity on networks that increasingly face congestion as a result of the explosive growth in Internet demand.
These objective Internet traffic management measures are used by Bell for its wholesale and retail consumer and business customers. The CAIP request and today’s CRTC decision relate to Bell’s wholesale Internet traffic management practices.
“With this decision, the Commission has rightly confirmed that network operators are in the best position to determine how to operate their networks effectively and efficiently, to allow fair and proportionate use of the Internet by all users.”
As part of today’s decision, the CRTC also announced it will undertake a broader examination of the issues related to Internet network management. Bell looks forward to participating in that proceeding.
Definitely stay tuned.
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p2pnet – CRTC defends Bell Canada throttling decision, November 21, 2008
CBC – We’re not endorsing internet throttling: CRTC, November 20, 2008
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November 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
So, working off a previous post, the VP of the CRTC worked for Bell for 11 years and CAIP who was working against Bell’s corporate interests was kept out of the loop on multiple occasions, correct??
Maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t there something very wrong about that?
November 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
conflict of interest and an ethics issue?
Perhaps a committee in parliament to see how ethically challenged the CRTC is.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:55 pm
None is this any surprise to me.
I posted way back, when the CRTC first denied the interim “ceast and desist” request from CAIP, that the denial was a definitive statement in itself of what to expect. The only vulnerable side in the argument was CAIP. There wasn’t even the slightest indication that granting such a request would have caused Bell any harm. By allowing Bell to carry on business as usual, while supposedly “educating themselves to the intricacies of the issue”, the CRTC was just reinforcing the bias we already knew this case would suffer from.
Even before this motion was filed, we knew just by Bell’s very blatantcy in everything they did, that there was a reason for their “confidence” – they knew nobody was going to stop them. And, by the time anyone finds a way to put Bell before a REAL court, they will have completed a new infrastructure that will not be shared with the competition (also thanks to a previous CRTC ass-kissing session).
I’m not saying there’s nothing we can do about any of this.
We need to view the CRTC just as we do the Mainstream Media – a farce!
If we want anything to change, we need to use other avenues where our voices are heard, without the interference of the Corporate Lobby Mechanism.
Swamp the Government with complaints – all available departments that have any connection with the issue, not just Industry Canada. Whenever possible, refuse to support any company or public office that doesn’t support your constitutional rights. Stop feeding the Beast! And, let everyone who is feeding it know how wrong it is to do so, and how much we all lose as long as they keep doing it.
Bell’s throttling is not actually the disease we need to treat, but merely a symptom of a much bigger plague we’ve suddenly come to realize we’re in. We ARE gonna LOSE EVERYTHING if this whole Corporate Control Scenario is allowed to continue past this point!
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Ablosh The CRTC!FCC is waaaay better then our P.O.S CRTC!
stop Big BrothER from taking over our lives!
Bell World Order WANTS control,domination and slavery,we should take this to the government.
BTW the CRTC are a bunch of liberals in desguise,we need them GONE!