Canadian News - CRTC to Bell - Show Us Evidence

[GhostShip]

It seems like Bell will be facing the regulators with some proof of its claims regarding alleged network congestion, claims that many ISP's make when they want to prioritise their own video traffic strangely enough.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080516.wrthrottle16/BNStory/Technology/home

Federal regulators have ordered Bell Canada to provide tangible evidence that its broadband networks are congested to justify the company's Internet "traffic-shaping" policies.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) yesterday laid out the process through which it will tackle the issue of how Internet providers manage the flow of content on their networks and those they lease to third-party providers, setting up a summer of debate over so-called net neutrality.

In a letter sent yesterday to the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) and Bell Canada, the CRTC requested further information from both parties and said it plans to issue a ruling based on CAIP's complaint this fall.
In April, CAIP - an industry group representing about 50 independent Internet service providers - launched a complaint with the CRTC after its member companies discovered that Bell was slowing down the traffic on the network space it was leasing to them.

I for one would like to see the "facts" laid out on the table, after all they are seriously impacting on not only their own customers but seemingly decimating the competition and the "free market" with their high handed monopoly practice of slowing their competitors traffic down.

[p2p rules]

I for one will be leaving Bell Sympatico once my contract is up unless they stop throttling p2p traffic.
The ISP competition who buy bandwidth from Bell is getting throttled too during peak hours, so either way I'm screwed.The only advanced I could see with going to another ISP is maybe a cheaper price, a 200gb or unlimited bandwidth contact cos Bell Sympatico limits people to 60gb a month on there new high speed plan + $1.50 per 1gb if you go over 60gb a month & Bell Sympatico not getting any more money out of me.

This article proves that Bell  is lying about why the have to use Internet Traffic Management to throttle p2p traffic.

Bell Canada’s ‘5% of users’ claim trashed

p2pnet news | Freedom:- According to Danny McPherson, CTO of Arbor Networks, who “makes all sorts of network-management and traffic-shaping tools”, used by over 70% of the ISPs around the world: 0% 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; and, streaming content such as TV shows and YouTube is on the rise. This clearly shows the “bandwidth hogs” are, in fact, ordinary, average http users during peak time, and NOT Bell’s fictitious 5% of “heavy” P2P users” who suck up around 50% of the total available bandwidth.s ‘5% of users’ claim trashed.

[SamSeeSam]

I guess all the throttling was initially aimed at P2P users, but then they just started using it for all users as an excuse to postpone upgrades and consequent expenditure..
Sucks bigtime

So far I've been free of any hassels