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Monday February 06, 2012 |
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Last week Rogers advised
the CRTC that it plans to drop
Internet throttling for all customers by the end of the year. The
move was not unexpected given that its policy was an outlier
among all major Canadian ISPs. I'll have more to say on this
development soon.
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Wednesday February 01, 2012 |
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The CRTC yesterday released
new net neutrality complaints data. The data shows
a significant increase in the number of complaints in the last quarter
of 2011 when compared with the prior two years. I wrote
about the complaints issue in July 2011 based on data obtained under
the Access to Information Act.
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Friday January 20, 2012 |
The CRTC has written
to Rogers Communications to advise that its investigation has concluded
that the company violated the Internet traffic management rules (better
known as net neutrality rules). The letter
notes:
Based on the preliminary results of
our ongoing investigation, Commission staff is of the belief that
Rogers Communications Inc. (“Rogers”) applies a technical ITMP to
unidentified traffic using default peer-to-peer (“P2P”) ports. On the
basis of our evidence to date, any traffic from an unidentified
time-sensitive application making use of P2P ports will be throttled
resulting in noticeable degradation of such traffic.
The CRTC notes that prior approval is required for degradation of time
sensitive traffic and gives Rogers two weeks to rebut the evidence or
become compliant with the law. The case highlights a newfound
willingness by the CRTC to investigate and enforce the net neutrality
rules with full research into the effect of Rogers' traffic shaping
practices. This represents a major step forward as it sends a
clear
message - after several years of doubt - that the CRTC is prepared to
enforce the net neutrality rules. Given the recent announcement
that Bell is abandoning traffic shaping, the question is whether Rogers
will follow suit or drag out the process by facing CRTC enforcement and
further user complaints.
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Friday January 13, 2012 |
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Sarah Schmidt of Postmedia reports
that net neutrality complaints to the CRTC have accelerated over the
past six months.
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