In a greed fuelled move recently Rogers announced they where going to both throttle p2p users and cap them.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15775Rogers now seems ready to introduce a spy system leading to what amounts to a double hit on P2P file sharers, as well as a further blow against net neutrality
However, as p2pnet’s Ottawa Gal pointed out recently, according to Danny McPherson, CTO of Arbor Networks:
20% of traffic comes from P2P applications
During peak-load times, 70% of subscribers use http.
Only 20% are using P2P
Http still makes up most of the total traffic, of which 45% is traditional web content including text and images.
Streaming video and audio content from services such as YouTube account for nearly 50% of the http traffic.
Streaming content such as TV shows and YouTube is on the rise.
“Rogers has already introduced usage caps on its various tiers of home Internet service, which have traditionally been priced in Canada as all-you-can eat services, albeit with varying levels of download speeds,” says the Toronto Star.
Exceeding existing limits, “will trigger extra charges,” says the story going on to quote company CEO Ted Rogers is saying proudly, “I believe this will be the first time that this has been done in North America.”
"Rogers is rolling out a system that will place alerts directly on the Web page a subscriber is viewing,” ‘alerts’ being a euphemism for ‘warnings’.
But, states company COO Nadir Mohamed, Rogers will continued to shackle traffic to “relieve congestion during peak hours” by, “using special software to sniff out bandwidth-hungry applications such as peer-to-peer services and steer the data into the equivalent of an Internet slow lane”.
This is in effect reducing the chances of using P2P to nearly nothing, this new double-dip comes unashamedly as they are still signing customers up to their massively oversubscribed services, I believe its time for a regulator to step in and halt any fraudulant selling practices that will arise with the start of this service change, offering customers something you do not intend to deliver is fraud plain and simple.
