infoaddict
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Thornhill, ON
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| Making room for ... just HDTV?
I was a Bell ExpressVu for Condo subscriber until today. This is a VDSL service, that in one line provides TV and Internet. This service does not yet provide HDTV due to bandwidth issues but newer technology is in a trials evidently near Palace Pier in old Etobicoke (South West Toronto) to add HDTV service soon everywhere else this is type of service is offered in the short term (1-2 years).
It seems however to me that one aspect of this traffic shaping issue might be to be make room for HDTV at lower cost by throttling traffic otherwise. While Roger's may have other reasons such a reducing capital costs to expand its bandwidth, it appears to be bumping into natural limits on copper v. fibre optics.
If however they violate network neutrality, and charge extra for the pieces of the same bandwidth, as might seem to be in plan, they must have also overcome a bigger issue "privately" over their potential loss of protection under Canadian copyright law as a passive telecommunication network.
ISP's under Canadian copyright law would ordinarily not want to in any way, shape or form become responsible for the content on their networks, because if they become non-passive telecommunication networks, they would lose their present protection at 2.4(1)(b) of the Copyright Act of Canada.
2.4 (1) For the purposes of communication to the public by telecommunication,
(b) a person whose only act in respect of the communication of a work or other subject-matter to the public consists of providing the means of telecommunication necessary for another person to so communicate the work or other subject-matter does not communicate that work or other subject-matter to the public; ...
transmits by telecommunication a work or other subject-matter that is communicated to the public by another person who is not a retransmitter of a signal within the meaning of subsection 31(1), the transmission and communication of that work or other subject-matter by those persons constitute a single communication to the public for which those persons are jointly and severally liable.
The backbone ISP's must however know this as it was a Supreme Court of Canada case and this causes me to reflect that this is being done in collusion with the major foreign copyright holders, with perhaps a timing problem now with the delay of the reform of the Copyright Act by the Conservative government.
Any thoughts/opinions would be welcome.
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To my understanding VDSL is provided directly by fibre to the condo building, therefore not affected by any neighbourhood torrenting or other high bandwidth activity.
And since VDSL only allows a small portion of the pipe for Internet (4 or 5mbps) out of 50mbps, so I'd say the bandwidth is there.
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