Full article at:
»www.p2pnet.net/story/15932

More than 1,100 Canadians filed complaints in support of two CAIP submissions to the CRTC demanding Bell Canada be ordered to stop its traffic throttling activities.

Yet the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) has, for the moment, at least, ignored their concerns.
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But, CAIP promises, Canada’s smaller ISPs aren’t about to give up the battle.

“We’ll continue our pursuit of the application in the interests of all Canadians.”

Here’s the CRTC decision in full >>>

The CRTC has ruled against CAIP (Canadian Ass'n of Internet Providers) in its request for an interim injunction with regard to Bell Canada's throttling of wholesale ISP connections through GAS (Gateway Access Services)

For more info see this thread in our forums ...

»Agggg! CRTC Decision is in....

Bell Canada Hit With Privacy Complaint Over Deep Packet Inspection Practices

CIPPIC has filed a privacy complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada over Bell's deep packet inspection practices

Full article @
»www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php

BCE Inc. reported a 48 per cent drop in first-quarter profit on Wednesday amid little changed revenue and higher restructuring and regulatory costs.

Profit slipped to $258-million, or 32 cents a share in the quarter ended March 31, from $499-million, or 62 cents in the year-earlier period. Excluding certain charges and gains, BCE said profit would have climbed to 57 cents in the quarter from 52 cents a year earlier.

Continues here

The NUPGE has called on Stephane Dion and the Libs to support Net Neutrality

»www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008···ity.html

»www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2869/125/

Perhaps most importantly, it focuses on whether throttling violates the common carrier provisions found in Section 36 of the Telecommunications Act. The CAIP argument, reproduced in full, goes to the crux of whether the current Act is able to address this component of the net neutrality issue:

»www.p2pnet.net/story/15735

CAIP has now come back with a second CRTC submission in which it asks for an interim order on an, ‘urgent and expedited basis’ telling Bell Canada to, ‘immediately cease and desist” from interfering with the wholesale ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) access services it sells to competitors, especially its tariffed Gateway Access Service (’GAS’).

Among other things, CAIP charges:

»www.p2pnet.net/story/15738

According to Danny McPherson, CTO of Arbor Networks, who “makes all sorts of network-management and traffic-shaping tools”, used by over 70% of the ISPs around the world:

-20% of traffic comes from P2P applications
-During peak-load times, 70% of subscribers use http.
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This clearly shows the “bandwidth hogs” are, in fact, ordinary, average http users during peak time, and NOT Bell’s fictitious 5% of “heavy” P2P users” who suck up around 50% of the total available bandwidth.

Parliment Hill Rally/Protest: Ottawa, April 29

»www.p2pnet.net/story/15710

Rocky Gaudrault, co-owner of Teksavvy, the Ontario ISP that’s up front in the fight to make Canadians understand the bandwidth throttling issue centres as much on, “privacy, choice and ISP transparency,” as anything else, is organising an event on the Hill for April 29.

The CRTC ruling, “may very well pave the path to either continued technical advancement, or a corporate Canadian internet without the freedom of choice,” says Gaudrault, going on:

“If we don’t stand up and get both a public and a political uprising we fear our internet freedoms might be up for grabs by the highest bidder, or worse simply taken away!”

Additional Details:
»Protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, MAY 15TH NOW!

BE THERE!

p2pnet talks to Charlie Angus on throttling
»www.p2pnet.net/story/15705

"As well, telecoms could be in a position to artificially slow down streams while pushing frustrated consumers to accept higher priced service in order to ensure higher speed response."

"There must be some consumer-protection checks in place for any such steps taken by the telecoms."

"I believe that politicians who are on the wrong side of this issue will pay the price as consumers across Canada become increasingly vocal about the need to protect the ‘little guy’ from the arbitrary actions of the telecom giants."

CRTC ‘inundated’ with ‘throttling’ calls, emails.
»www.p2pnet.net/story/15695

a former communications specialist —- and an ex-Bell Canada employee speaks.

Ultimately, this is not about the internet but the monopoly that both Bell Canada and Rogers Communications want to exercise in distributing contents.

Should Bell Canada be successful in maintaining traffic shaping, Canada, as far as I know would be the only country that legally allows this degrading of service. Under the threat of being re-regulated, Comcast in the US has abandoned the practice.

»www.p2pnet.net/story/15679
ISP traffic shapping — and bafflegab
(A TV Show writter shares his thoughts on the "throttling" issue)

“While there’s a pause in the CRTC Hearing bafflegab, let’s kick for a moment toward something that’s NOT being talked about, but that has EVERYTHING to do with what’s going on in the ‘review‘ of the TV system currently going on in Gatineau,”
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»www.p2pnet.net/story/15677
"Throttling" not about Net neutrality

Cable companies want the Internet to act more like cable service (bundles of “channels”, tiers of access services, etc). Cisco wants to sell more expensive routers which are capable of deep packets inspection and prioritization, even though in many situations increased fiber capacity is cheaper than these routers.

Cisco claims they support the ability of an ISP to use whatever policies they want to manage congestion and other issues within their network. I agree with the sentiment, but believe that there are two issues where regulation is clearly required.

»www.p2pnet.net/story/15678

Did you ever stop to wonder how LITTLE Bell must be making on the network (both wholesale and Sympatico retail) to justify Bell spokesman Mirko Bibic’s comment that, “Bandwidth just doesn’t fall from the sky”?

I have.

Below are general costs of one wholesaler, TekSavvy, neatly compiled and then broken down to reflect what Bell is making both retail and wholesale.

What do you think about Bibic's comment?

(warning: This makes the 6/49 look like pocket change!)

I was reading through posts on DSLreports and came across one post in particular by "fatness" that caught my attention.

I can't find the link to what fatness said, but it went something like this:

"There are new users joining the forum and finding out about this (the wholesale throttle) for the first time." (paraphrased)

So I contacted Jon over at P2Pnet and asked him he he could find the time to put all the Bell throttling articles he did in one area, for those who may just be finding out about it and want to read up on it.

So for those who may have missed a bit and want to read up on it (with reference links), here it is:

The Bell traffic shaping digest
»www.p2pnet.net/story/15671

I'll see what more we can add to this in the coming days.

Enjoy.... and thanks for the tip fatness!

»www.zeropaid.com/news/9415/Bell+···erloaded

Does Bell Really Have a P2P Bandwidth Problem?

Most importantly, however, Bell provides data on its network usage that significantly undermines its claim that P2P usage is causing such havoc with its network that throttling measures that impact 100 percent of its (and some of its competitions') users are needed.

»www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2844/125/

various articles on this news item can be found here:

From P2Pnet.net:
Meanwhile, Toronto-based “Primus submits that the Commission should grant CAIP’s request for an interim order directing Bell Canada to stop ‘throttling its GAS [Gateway Access Service] service,” it says in its filing, stating, “The order should remain in effect until the Commission issues a decision with regard to the remainder of CAIP’s application,” and going on >>>
»www.p2pnet.net/story/15649

From www.michaelgeist.ca:
The Primus submission, which deals only with the question of interim relief (a fuller submission will come later), argues that the CRTC should grant CAIP’s request for an interim order directing Bell Canada to stop its throttling practices, pending a decision with regard to the remainder of CAIP’s application.
»www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2843/125/

From dslreports.com (front page):
Telecommunications provider Primus has opted to show its support of the CAIP’s battle with Bell Canada by filing its own submission with the CRTC about the issue. The company urges the CRTC to consider the fact that competition in the market alone will not resolve this issue, saying:
»Primus Backs CAIP Against Bell Canada

Dear Minister Prentice,

I am writing you today on the issue of net neutrality, which is quickly emerging as a matter of great mainstream interest. The recent actions of Bell in its fight with third party ISP providers has brought into clear focus the need for the government to develop a coherent and transparent policy for public internet access.

...Continued @ »www.p2pnet.net/story/15647

Industry Canada approves the takeover of BCE ...

»www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/04/0···ice.html

The data, as presented by Bell, scrutinized:

Summary:
Part 1: The fictitious 5% causing the all the problems.
Part 2: Bells use of the word "Base"
Part 3: Exposing the Bell media spin

»www.p2pnet.net/story/15516