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Re: Status of 2008-108 Throttling Review and Vary said by jfmezei:...... This is not very different from dial-up days when Bell's busy hour moved to the evening because of dial-up internet suddently changed average call duration and wrecked Bell's capacity models. Yet, Bell reacted by adding sufficient capacity to handle the load. Absolutely correct.
Look at the timeline:
Independent ISP's corporately, and their users, experienced no capacity issues prior to August/November 2007 when Bell began to throttle Sympatico users.
It's not as if Sympatico users suddenly began to consume dramatically more bandwidth.
Then in the period between November 2007 - March 2008 when Bell began the stealth throttle of ISP GAS links, none of the independent ISP's were having any capacity issues on GAS except for their normal growth patterns - necessitating merely normal capacity planning on their part.
Subsequent to March 2008, Bell pulls back the curtain on their on-line movie store.
It's abundantly clear that what Bell was/is doing is attempting to discriminate against all by reserving bandwidth for paid content offered by one of their subsidiaries during the evening hours when the bulk of such content is typically viewed.
Bell could have run fiber from its movie store head-end to each CO to give themselves a dedicated pipe for their paid content, and bypassed the allegedly congested GAS-tariffed pipes (bought and paid for by independent ISP's), but they didn't. |
