Many people have written to note that new reports from P2Pnet, Ars Technica, and Technaute.com indicate that Bell has admitted that it is traffic shaping peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent. I argued a couple of weeks ago that the starting point to address these issues is for far greater transparency from Canada's ISPs.
Bell and Traffic Shaping
November 7, 2007
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