said by ragingwolf:said by st7860:what the media doesn't tell you is that those companies whining about throttling are not using their own networks. they basically buy services from Bell Canada and resell them, providing only their own mail/news servers and miscellaneous backhaul here and there.
They are, in almost all cases NOT renting dry loops from Bell Canada, and in almost all cases NOT colocating any of their own DSLAMS with Bell Canada.
So then since they're basically just reselling white label ADSL with a few support services added, they are obviously subject to the host companies regulations and irritations, such as throttling and so on.
Obviously, you aren't familiar enough with Canadian internet. These so-called "resellers" are far from a white label'd Bell internet. You people in the US always seem to fly off the handle thinking you know it all, when you are absolutely clueless about the situation. Do some research before you post and maybe you'll see why Canadians are so infuriated about the issue.
The only portion of Bell network that these companies
rent (at regulated prices I might add) is the last mile, the copper to your house and the dslam is connects too. This is due to one simple fact, our government mandated that Bell do this, so as to provoke at least some competition because otherwise, we'd probably be in an even worse situation.
They also pay Bell more money for links with dedicated bandwidth to have that traffic transported to their central routers which turns it into actual internet traffic. At any point in Bell network, all the traffic is, is a simply PPPoE stream of data, which can technically be anything from phone service, internet, video on demand, etc.
the government didn't mandate anything, except that bell provide various levels of resale, such as the white label ADSL services that companies in Ontario normally use.
