Cybersurf chalks up win for Canadian ISPs
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Giving small ISPs Net speeds equal to those of Bell Canada would discourage investment in new infrastructure, claim companies such as Bell Canada, currently locked in a bitter fight with its own customers over its traffic throttling actions.
The CRTC shied away from issuing an outright decision to demands by CAIP (Canadian Association of Internet Providers) that Bell be ordered to stop its ‘traffic management’ scheme.
Should the commercial interests of a mega telecommunications company should continue to supersede those of its customers?
They should, the regulator decided.
Backing up Bell Canada’s claim that P2P file sharers are unconscionable bandwidth hogs, “The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today announced that it has denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers’ (CAIP) request that Bell Canada cease the traffic-shaping practices it has adopted for its wholesale Gateway Access Service,” said the CRTC.
“CAIP is very disappointed with the Decision. Canadians in general should be disappointed,” CAIP chairman Tom Copeland told p2pnet.
Now, however, the CRTC has ordered the likes of Bell to offer the same Net speeds to smaller wholesale customers as they themselves sell on a retail basis, says the CBC, going on:
“Under existing CRTC regulations, the big phone companies are required to rent out their networks to smaller service providers, who then sell internet access to their own customers. The rules boost the number of competitors selling internet access to the public, and thus keep prices down and service levels up. The regulations, however, have only applied to older infrastructure based in phone companies’ centralized office buildings.
“Recently, phone companies have been pushing their networks out of those buildings by putting new equipment into streetside cabinets in an effort to boost their customers’ internet speeds. Smaller internet service providers haven’t had regulated access to those cabinets, however, which means they have been limited to selling slower speeds than those offered by the big phone companies.”
The CRTC ruling was made thanks to efforts by Cybersurf Corp, an independent ISP based in Calgary.
“The Commission directs that the ILECs subject to this Decision, namely Bell Aliant, Bell Canada, MTS Allstream, SaskTel, and TCC, consult with their aggregated ADSL customers and file, within 45 days of the date of this Decision, proposed revised tariff pages to include any matching-speed with respect to existing retail service speeds offering where there is demand by any such customer,” says the CRTC, adding:
“The Commission also directs that upon the introduction of a new retail Internet service speed by any such ILEC, the ILEC in question is to file at the same date proposed revised tariff pages for wholesale aggregated ADSL services at the same speed.”
traffic throttling actions – p2pnet traffic shaping digest, April 19, 2008
shied away – Bell Canada says ‘Thanks’ to the CRTC, November 21,2008
CBC – Small ISPs to offer same internet speeds as Bell, Telus, December 12, 2008
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December 15th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Disgusting no jutice at all. Does the courts and governments forget they work for us the people. I do not care what the peoples demmands are but whatever they are they shuld be met. THe governments and courts are not suposed to work for corporates. It is the right of the people to self govern, and when a government is no longer wanted it is the right of the people to remove it from power. I think we all understand what that means.