It seems not a day goes by now without some mention of Bells unilateral decision to seriously impair many of the smaller ISP providers from providing their services to the consumer.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080424-p2p-throttling-leading-to-net-neutrality-showdown-in-canada.htmlWireless Nomad, the small Canadian ISP that we profiled last year, has now stepped into the network neutrality debate (and we would expect nothing less from an ISP that was co-founded by a former EFF activist). The company has filed papers with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission asking that Bell Canada, which has begun using deep packet inspection to throttle all peer-to-peer traffic between 4:30pm and 2am, be forced to stop its practice. According to the filing, Bell "cripples Internet access for those communications by reducing their speed by approximately 90 percent" and "unduly impairs legitimate communications such as encrypted sessions."
Wireless Nomad suggests, as critics of Comcast in the US have done, that ISPs continue rolling out network upgrades to handle the problem, rather than resort to complex and expensive DPI systems that generate these sorts of controversies. Internet service is simply not a "build once, sell over and over" service, says the filing.
Well put Wireles Nomad.
