said by st7860 :

(obviously this doesn't apply to VRADs/remotes and so on)

said by st7860 :

what is almost never mentioned is that Teksavvy basically buys wholesale ADSL from Bell and adds on their own stuff (some backhaul, email/web service, authentication, etc).

for almost 10 years, any company in Canada has the right to rent bare copper lines from the ILEC(bell, telus, etc) and colocate their own dslams into central offices and thus avoid any throtting. but most companies choose to instead buy wholesale adsl from the ILEC, which is obviously subject to throttling.

(obviously this doesn't apply to VRADs/remotes and so on)

said by st7860 :

nobody is forced to buy wholesale.

for ten years anyone has had the right to locate their own equipment in a central office and obviously avoid throttling.

of course if you rent wholesale(white label) services from someone you are subject to disruptions and conditions.

said by st7860 :

of course if you rent wholesale(white label) services from someone you are subject to disruptions and conditions.

said by st7860 :

it is an opportunity, as bare copper lines for ADSL purposes have been available in Canada for 10 years, but teksavvy choses to be cheap and instead rent white label ADSL, and is obviously subject to throttling.

said by st7860 :

it IS white label service and thats why Bell is able to throttle it. companies can choose to rent bare parts like copper lines and place their OWN equipment into a central office then in that situation, bell obviously can't throttle them.

said by st7860 :

and for the people who didn't already know - the reason why bell can throttle ADSL is because most companies choose to rent wholesale services from bell and just stick their own name on it thats why in some situations in ontario(you can't do this in bc or alberta) with various ADSL companies you can trade passwords and USERids and it usually works)

said by st7860 :

(obviously this doesn't apply to VRADs/remotes and so on)