Bell Canada: speed up, charges down?

[p2p rules]

Bell Canada’s chief of regulatory affairs, Mirko ‘Mr5%‘ Bibic, claims Bell’s network can’t handle the load supposedly imposed by Bell customers who use P2P.

The company justifies its throttling actions based on this 5% who, it clains, cause serious congestion within its multi-million dollar network.

The 5% user base has an average speed of 3.5mbps.

The cure?

Triple the speed for users at less cost!

This rumour is making the rounds as posted by this Bell tech support rep on dslreports »»»

    Starting in August, max [16-meg internet] is going to be 50 bucks with 100GB on a 2 year contract with 2 months free…

If Bell is pushing up the speed for this low price (the same price as their “upto” 7-meg internet), one has to say Bell’s network congestion is full of it.

Similar to what anon says in dslreports »»»

    Bell makes the claim that their network can’t handle the current load and thats why they are throttling”.

    If they can’t handle the current network load now how the f*ck are they going to handle an increase to 16-meg?

If the Bell network is as severely congested as it claims, and uses the assertion as justification for throttling its wholesale ISPs, why are they next month increasing speed for their own customers, also charging less?

Surely this will only add to the problem?

If the 5% who allegedly caused the throttling action now use an average speed of about 3.5-mbps, how the heck will it stand up to 5% using 16mbps?

Can someone please explain the logic here?

How does increasing speed more than three-fold at the same cost fix Bells severely congested network?

If the competition is throttled now at 30kB/s from 4-pm till 2:00 am, what will it be if Bell triples the speed for its own internet users?

To be able to service an average of 3.5mbps, Bell now throttles all its users, as well as the wholesale users’ 10-hours per day.

Will Bell throttle 24/7 and throttle more than just P2P to be able to service 16mbps?

It stands to reason that by tripling the speed one would have to do more network management!

When this rumour was pointed out to Rocky Gaudrault, co-owner and CEO of Teksavvy Solutions Inc (www.teksavvy.com), one of the wholesale ISP’s being throttled by force by bell Canada, he had this to say:

“It’s easy to promise something for whatever price if you don’t have to deliver on the demand….. 16Meg connections throttled 1/3 of the day (the part when you’re actually home and not sleeping)…. Sounds like a good profit centre proposition to me! ”

Considering Bell’s current and past nature, I personally would not take, nor recommend any one take, this 2-year contract offer.

As Bell is currently doing, and has done in the past, it can change its contracts on a whim to drop your allowable download bandwidth and also throttle longer and more applications at a whim.

Buyers beware; especially beware of 2-year contracts commitments

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