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Comments on news posted 2011-12-20 09:12:12: You'll recall that back in 2008 Bell started throttling the bandwidth delivered to wholesale customers without telling them about it. While Bell insisted the move was due to network congestion, they were never able to prove the congestion existed. ..

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battleop
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Hum...

So maybe there was some truth to why they thought they needed to throttle customers.
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Um, "massive investments" happen ALL THE TIME in the telco/ISP business. It's part of, um, you know, business. I'm glad our friendly neighbors to the north have one less thing to worry about, it's at least a step in the right direction. I still feel sorry for those with absurdly low caps though (including some here in the U.S.)
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Re: Hum...

said by battleop:

So maybe there was some truth to why they thought they needed to throttle customers.

Have you ever heard of investments? Every company does it. If you have a lot of competitors in the marketplace, then you do it to stay alive and you don't pass on all of it to your customers. When you have a captive market, you don't have to do much investing and when you do you can pass the entire cost of it plus a little more down.

Teleco/cablecos are the captive market types of business and they sure don't like competition. If Bell had to throttle customers, that means that they didn't invest enough into their business. But it turns out they were basically lieing, since they couldn't prove their points.

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I'm in shock. A company admits they no longer need throttling because they've made investments?

Other companies could learn from this....

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said by battleop:

So maybe there was some truth to why they thought they needed to throttle customers.

Yes, it was a well known fact Bell didn't feel the need to invest at all until the UBB decision didn't go 100% in their favor.

Funny how that works.

The North American Incumbents are pathetic.
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said by PapaMidnight:

I'm in shock. A company admits they no longer need throttling because they've made investments?

Other companies could learn from this....

The problem with this shell game (and that's all it is) is that we'll never see any proof of if Bell has actually spent a single dime dealing with "network congestion" versus spending the monies on things like ads trying to convince us that Bell is better than the other large incumbent.

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said by battleop:

So maybe there was some truth to why they thought they needed to throttle customers.

There obviously wasn't.
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You'll recall that back in 2008 Bell started throttling the bandwidth delivered to wholesale customers without telling them about it. While Bell insisted the move was due to network congestion, they were never able to prove the congestion existed.

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Congestion... Bah!

Even if congestion was true, Bhell's decision to throttle rather than upscale their networks is bizarre. How can you possibly suggest to offer state of the art networks when you throttle the Hell out of downloads. Their kooky idea didn't work and it cost them many customers in the end.

The regulator needs to keep it's thumb on Bhell. They can't be trusted.

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Said thumb is made of ex-Bell (and Rogers) execs.

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Re: Hum...

I would say that they are doing away with caps is some sort of proof that have spent a few dimes.
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Are the caps gone?

Does this mean that the 150GB (DSL) and 250GB (U-Verse)monthly caps for home users is now gone? Do I no longer have to worry about going over my limit when watching Netfix?
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Re: Hum...

said by battleop:

So maybe there was some truth to why they thought they needed to throttle customers.

What part of "Bell was never able to prove to regulators Congestion made their throttling necessary" did you not understand?

Your bizarre fetishistic worship of corporations shames the names of Tom and Jerry.

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Re: Are the caps gone?

said by fixitman0:

Does this mean that the 150GB (DSL) and 250GB (U-Verse)monthly caps for home users is now gone? Do I no longer have to worry about going over my limit when watching Netfix?

no. theres still legacy video revenues to protect. don't cut that cord yet!
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No need to get carried away

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Bell has saved us!!

From the evil P2P users and throttling with their loving investments in their network!!!




Thank you Bell!!!

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Re: Hum...

No, It was the hue and cry and attention of the regulators that got them to back down.

They were throttling competitor's lines, deliberately in an anti-competitive move. Bandwidth had nothing to do with it. When that got rolled back, they realized that now they'd have to compete or face mass exodus of their customers to the unthrottled competition---- which was the whole reason they throttled them in the first place, so that they WOULDN'T lose customers.

Now they have to back off. They still got a huge win in very bad UBB rates however.

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pffttt... no diff for me... I'm still going to keep my MLPPP service with Teksavvy.

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Re: Hum...

They are not removing caps,just throttling
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Re: Are the caps gone?

Nothing to do with US ISP's

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Re: Hum...

Since you fail to understand basic English let me help you out....

So maybe there was some truth to why they thought they needed to throttle customers.

I did not say "So there was truth to why they thought they needed to throttle customers." I am suggesting that there may have been some reasons why they were throttling users and now that they have done some upgrades they do not see a reason to continue throttling.

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said by amungus:

Um, "massive investments" happen ALL THE TIME in the telco/ISP business. It's part of, um, you know, business. I'm glad our friendly neighbors to the north have one less thing to worry about, it's at least a step in the right direction. I still feel sorry for those with absurdly low caps though (including some here in the U.S.)

Can anyone say MLSE (Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment).

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BS

Bull-shit.

The primary driver is because they kept losing direct consumers as people kept switching to cable or indie ISPs.
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Absolutely. That and the fact they are STILL trying to cram a reliable Internet signal onto 19th century technology - telephone copper pairs. I love seeing these massive telecom companies crying foul on our usage patterns, while simultaneously claiming to have the best, most reliable networks. Then they QQ about having to carry data from Netflix and other streaming services...
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Investment...

"claiming that the shift is thanks to their "massive investment" in infrastructure"

So let me translate that to : we invest a few thousand box here and there put some ducktape to fix the box now we are good to go...
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Absolutely. That and the fact they are STILL trying to cram a reliable Internet signal onto 19th century technology - telephone copper pairs.

Um - twisted pair does work, y'know; gigabit around the home, and 25 Mbit down the phone line. But perhaps that is not fast enough for you.

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Bell has lost so many subscribers to cable internet that...

They don't want to lose all of them. Yet at the present moment more than 99 percent of all dsl subscribers whether it be the ones with Bell Sympatico or all the ones with the third party isp's all are still being throttling. Only a select few on fibe aren't being throttled and a few sparse cities with no population in the middle of nowhere.
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Re: Hum...

Bell also raised the overuse fee effective January 2012 to 80 dollars maximum from 60. That also may have had something to do with getting rid of throttling.

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Re: Bell has lost so many subscribers to cable internet that...

Better to lose many low paying Cx's, than the one's that shell out big $$$. It decreases all that congestion, ya know. And, still provides the same revenue.

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Re: Hum...

said by battleop:

Since you fail to understand basic English let me help you out....

So maybe there was some truth to why they thought they needed to throttle customers.

I did not say "So there was truth to why they thought they needed to throttle customers." I am suggesting that there may have been some reasons why they were throttling users and now that they have done some upgrades they do not see a reason to continue throttling.

Nope.

Look up the UBB - CRTC debacle. They were called out by consumer advocates, journalists, customers, and even the CRTC to provide evidence for over a year. It never happened.
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