Post Tagged with: "traffic shaping"

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

Canadians Deserve Better ISP Transparency

Appeared in the Toronto Star on October 8, 2007 as Canadians Deserve Better ISP Transparency Online auction giant eBay Canada last week released the results of a survey it commissioned on Canadians' attitudes toward "net neutrality," a rapidly emerging issue that focuses on need for Internet service providers (ISPs) to […]

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October 9, 2007 4 comments Columns Archive

Caught in the Throttle

The Ottawa Business Journal has a front page article on traffic shaping this week that highlights yet again why the lack of transparency around Canadian Internet service is a significant problem.  The story focuses on the Rogers' traffic shaping issues and includes references to three comments on the issue from […]

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September 7, 2007 Comments are Disabled Neutrality

Caught in the Throttle

The Ottawa Business Journal has a front page article on traffic shaping this week that highlights yet again why the lack of transparency around Canadian Internet service is a significant problem.  The story focuses on the Rogers' traffic shaping issues and includes references to three comments on the issue from […]

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September 7, 2007 10 comments News

UK ISPs Threaten BBC Over iPlayer

Net neutrality concerns have moved to the UK, where several of the largest broadband providers, are threatening to traffic shape BBC's iPlayer unless the public broadcaster pays for the cost of streaming its videos. Update: BT denies that it has expressed concern with the iPlayer. 

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August 12, 2007 2 comments News