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CRTC says Oct. 31 will be the ruling

get yur bribes..er donations in!

CAIP's lobby person should have by now paid the CRTC donated a few hookers, unlimited booze, unlimited food in the best restaurants, and a vacation chalet in the south of france on a vineyard to cover "expenses".

If not, well we know how this will end already.

reply to oh LOOK
Here's to no tricks and only treating on Oct 31st...

I just looked at my calendar as I was adding the date on it, this is on a Friday (probably will be done late in the day too).

They'll have a buffer of two days for whatever decision they take. Chickens.

reply to oh LOOK
My god, October 31st???!!! That's ridiculous.
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reply to oh LOOK
Trick or Treat
Smell my Feet
Give Me Something Good to Eat

reply to oh LOOK
I've always been baffled with bureaucratic process. It's just amazing that it takes multiple months just to decide yes or no. For all we bloody know the CRTC will flip a coin around a bong and get their answer from that. This is a nightmare waiting to happen for the internet in Canada.

reply to oh LOOK
we need somebody on the inside to find out whats really going on in there. I say we get rocky to get a job in there so he can kick some ass!

reply to The Flash
mmmm Bananas and timbits??

reply to oh LOOK
Keep in mind this is only a "proposed" date. It can drag on. Bell can centainly add more fule to this to make it drag on.

Also, there has to be another battle coming to prevent teksavvy from turning into a mini-bell.

So this is just a proposed date for round one.

As for round two (the mini-bell fight), nothing has been submitted to the CRTC yet, if there will be.

Lawyer bills are racking up.

reply to oh LOOK
Bell must have booked golf rounds until the end of september to play golf with CRTC employees, which means they can't start working on the issue until after golfing season.

The really sad part about this is that Bell is probably buying golf rounds at charitable tournaments and as a result, get to have "charitable donation" status in its tax filings for its lobbying efforts.

Also, Bell wants to make sure all key politicians are back in town so it can wine and dine them to ensure they apply pressure to the CRTC for a proper resolution of the matter in Bell's favour.

As far as CAIP is concerned, I don't expect anything from them. My guess is that they are hoping the CRTC will be "nice" and rule in their favour.

If CAIP had taken out full page ads in major newspapers to explain what Bell is doing (factually), the public uproar would be such that Harper would tell the CRTC to rule on this ASAP, and make sure public opinion is satisfied.

Prentice got involved in the SMS thing because this was widely known by the public. He didn't get involved in the throttling because it was just a small bunch of geeks who got mad about it.

CAIP needs to learn, hopefully before Oct 31, that the CRTC isn't "nice", it doesn't rule for the right thing, it implements government policies, and unless there is a really massive uproar from the *general public*, the governmnet will want Bell to be succesfull.

Remember that Bell has a lot of negotiating power at this point in time. "If you let us keep the throttling, we'll lay off 1000 fewer employess come December 11th when we go private and never again have to report to anyone what we are doing".

The fact that Bell got the CRTC to delay this measn that they are waiting for the public to forget about this issue so that the CRTC won't have the public's opinion in mind when it rules in favour of Bell.

reply to oh LOOK
If the CRTC sides with bell does teksavvy have some backup plans to fight bell? Perhaps an anti competative lawsuit or something?

reply to Arbalister
> Delay ?

CRTC originally promised a ruling by mid-september.

Since the CRTC wasn't going to start working on this until the end of august after vacation, the delays in the filings are not the real reason for this delay in CRTC rendering a decision.

The fact that the CRTC decided that CAIP members were not harmed by Bell's DPI equipment (the may 15th injunction ruling) is probably a good indication of where they are heading. It is just a question of properly managing public perception so that there are no public backlashes.

HINT to CAIP: public opinion is the only thing that can force the CRTC to side with us, and remaining silent between now and the CRTC decision will ensure the CRTC can side with bell without any public opinion backlash. They don't car about a few hundred geeks. Media will have a 15 second report on it and will move on on oct 31.

(especially since the liberals aren't interested, the Reform party knows this isn't an important issue and donations from Bell is more important than votes from a few hundred geeks).

reply to oh LOOK
they want to ensure the new copyright bill gets passed by the liberal-conservative party of canada.

This then ensures they can get away with tons more stuff.

Someone buy me a printer and the ink, ill make sure peterborough never fergets......

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reply to oh LOOK
damn it, that's an entire month more than what was expected!

reply to oh LOOK

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The modern holiday of Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain).[2] The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes [3] regarded as the "Celtic New Year".[4] Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, where the bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.

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The modern holiday of Belloween has its origins in the ancient CRTC rulings. Traditionally, the festival was a time used by ancient Bell to take stock of supplies and slaughter wholesalers for winter stores. The ancient Bell believed that on October 31, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and Bell became dangerous for people by causing problems such as throttling or damaging the internet. The festivals would frequently involve DPI boxes, where the TCP packets of slaughtered torrents were thrown. Fudged numbers and false statistics were also thrown at the CRTC in an attempt to mimic the truth and placate the public.

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