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Wednesday July 08, 2009 |
Today's CRTC network management hearing featured some stunning discussion on the throttling of wholesale services that undoubtedly left many observers wondering whether the Commission actually understood what it was doing in the CAIP throttling complaint against Bell (CAIP has asked the Commission to reconsider the decision). The discussion started when MTS Allstream adopted the position that dominant carriers should not be permitted to throttle or traffic shape at the wholesale level. In other words, any traffic management practices should be limited to the ISP that interacts directly with a customer at the retail level. MTS argued that the wholesale service (known as GAS or Gateway Access Service) is more like a private virtual network, where the ISP is purchasing capacity. The GAS is not strictly an Internet service and MTS assured the Commission that the use of the wholesale services should not have a congestion impact on the carrier's retail Internet services.
This is relevant since the CAIP complaint involved GAS. CAIP was concerned that Bell's throttling was being done not to relieve congestion, but rather for competitive reasons. It believed that Bell was concerned that independent ISPs would offer retail customers non-throttled services (which ISPs like TekSavvy did), which might lead some to consumers to leave Bell (which they began to do). Of course, this is an illustration of why competition would address many net neutrality concerns (assuming consumers can choose an alternate provider). Yet Bell's approach was to throttle everyone's service at the retail and wholesale level, so that this form of competition would be eliminated. And the CRTC, perhaps not even understanding the specifics of the services at issue, let them get away with it.
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Thursday June 25, 2009 |
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P2PNet points to a submission from the Canadian Film and Television Production Association that argues that Bell's throttling practices unduly disadvantage P2P content, P2P apps, and end-users accessing legal P2P content. bell, cftpa, net neutrality, throttling Slashdot, Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsfeeder, Reddit, StumbleUpon, TwitterTagsShareThursday June 25, 2009 |
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Wednesday January 07, 2009 |
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CBC's Search Engine has a great podcast that tries to answer the question that will dominate the CRTC's net neutrality hearing - is throttlng actually necessary? net neutrality, search engine, throttling Slashdot, Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsfeeder, Reddit, StumbleUpon, TwitterTagsShareWednesday January 07, 2009 |
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Wednesday November 19, 2008 |
The CBC reports that the CRTC will release its much anticipated decision on Bell's throttling practices on Thursday morning.
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