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CRTC Launches Online Consultation on Net Neutrality

As I discovered onMichael Geist’s blog, the CRTC is ofering Canadians the opportunity speak out on Net Neutrality in advance of their hearings on ISP network management practices. I had this to say, in the Impact on User Experience section: [...]

CRTC Rules Bell Can Still SUCK!

It’s officially time to say: “The HELL with BELL!” And the CRTC can now become just one more corrupt government agency that is completely out of touch with the industry it is set to oversee and protect.

Bell Canada Inc. is not breaking any laws by slowing Internet speeds and will be allowed to continue throttling its customers, the CRTC has ruled. — The CBC

Not only is the CRTC going to turn a blind eye to Bell’s anti-competitive behaviour of restricting and diminishing access to content from third party providers in order to better promote it’s own services. But the CRTC are completely ignoring the fact that Bell illegally broke contracts by throttling and metering the CAIP ISP’s who had signed up to resell straight pipes or as some would say clean tubes!

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CRTC Set to Rule on How Much Bell is Allowed to SUCK!

Tomorrow, the CTRC will be ruling on whether or not Bell’s contronversial and a little bit e immoral practice of throttling it’s core customer and resellers, a group of more than 50 small companies represented by the Canadian Association of Internet Providers.

I blogged about this a few months back, the CRTC rejected a [...]

The CBC weighs in on Net Neutrality: ISP’s still Suck!

Bell and other Canadian ISP seem to have hit some type of nerve in The Great White North that is usually reserved to bad Hockey fights, bashing Celine Dion and corporate America messing with sacred Tim Horton’s pastries.

So I was watching last night’s big game between the Habs and the Sens and [...]

Bell throttling P2P and Bit Torrent Protocols: Everyone Loses!


Bell Sympatico, The Great White North’s largest internet service provider for consumers and reseller has officially and openly started packet shaping it’s network traffic to curb the effect of peer to peer file sharing and Bit Torrent protocols. Which is just ridiculous and down right wrong. ISP’s have to stop acting like Cyber police officers and more like utility companies, we have the RCMP and the CRTC to regulate acceptable web behavior. Last time I checked the Canadian law, file sharing and bit torrent technology was perfectly legal.

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