Post Tagged with: "traffic shaping"

Comcast Sued Over Traffic Shaping

The lawsuit is here, details on an FCC petition from Vuze here, and it is worth noting that the claims would seemingly be at home up here.

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November 16, 2007 Comments are Disabled Neutrality

Comcast Sued Over Traffic Shaping

The lawsuit is here, details on an FCC petition from Vuze here, and it is worth noting that the claims would seemingly be at home up here.

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November 16, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Bell and Traffic Shaping

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 […]

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November 7, 2007 Comments are Disabled Neutrality

Bell and Traffic Shaping

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 […]

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November 7, 2007 7 comments News

Canadians Deserve Better ISP Transparency

My weekly law and technology column (Toronto Star version, Ottawa Citizen version, homepage version) picks up on last week's Leger Marketing survey that found that Canadians are generally unaware of net neutrality issues, yet, when informed of the concern, strongly support the principles that provide the foundation for net neutrality legislation.

Most Canadians can hardly be faulted for being unaware of net neutrality since ISPs have done their best to keep the issue off the public's radar screen.  While solving the net neutrality issue will not happen overnight, addressing the lack of transparency associated with Internet services would go a long way toward creating a more informed debate.

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October 9, 2007 Comments are Disabled Neutrality