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Bell Canada Face Backlash Over Underhand Throttling
« on: April 04, 2008, 08:40:06 am »
This is whats needed to shame the mis-selling ISP companies.

Looks like folks are turning on Bell now they understand how its been stealing from them.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080403-canadians-debating-net-neutrality-in-wake-of-bell-throttling.html

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Bell Canada has been shaping P2P traffic for its own DSL customers for some time, but a real furor erupted late last month when it was revealed that Bell was also using deep packet inspection gear to throttle the access it sold to its wholesale customers. P2P traffic was bandwidth-limited during the evening hours, despite the fact that legitimate groups like the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have begun distributing video content using BitTorrent.
This, of course, removed one of the keys ways that DSL resellers could differentiate themselves (no throttling here!) from Bell and it affected even those resellers who were explicitly anti-throttling.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is Canada's version of the FCC, and has been the target of a complaint against Bell's tactics brought last week by the National Union of Public and General Employees. The labor labour union complained to CRTC's wonderfully-named boss, Konrad W. von Finckenstein, and demanded a full investigation.

Investigations are a all well and good but hard currency fines for miselling and anti-competitive practices are all any company listens to in my opinion.

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