JayMan
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| Bell throttles its Internet competitors - TOStar
»www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/407730
Apr 01, 2008 04:30 AM
Michael Geist
special to the star
Canada's broadcast regulator has long acknowledged that Canadians enjoy limited competition for high-speed Internet services.
In response, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has supported independent Internet service providers, or ISPs, by requiring incumbents such as Bell Canada to provide wholesale broadband Internet service at regulated rates.
While it is difficult to compete on price – the Bell wholesale pricing creates an effective minimum price – independent ISPs such as Chatham-based Teksavvy and Ottawa's National Capital FreeNet have carved a niche in the Canadian market through attention to customer service, innovative bundling approaches, targeted network investments and community ownership.
Last week, this important piece of the Canadian Internet connectivity puzzle learned its future viability has been put at risk due to Bell's plans to "throttle" its wholesale services........... |
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Turbinator
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1 edit | This sounds 95% like the Vancouver Star article posted earlier. |
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Guspaz
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Montreal, QC | That's because Geist wrote the article. It's the same article. |
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eots
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According to that article Bell outright lied to the CRTC:
with its 2003 assurance to the CRTC that it would only engage in limiting bandwidth for wholesale services "in cases of troubleshooting or to protect the network infrastructure from congestion resulting from malfunctioning or misconfigured equipment or malicious hacking." |
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HiVolt
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Re: Bell throttles its Internet competitors - TOStar
said by eots  :According to that article Bell outright lied to the CRTC: Yeah, if that indeed proves true it might be a huge plus for the fight to restore things to the way they were.
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GOLF LEAFS GOLF! |
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JimJay5
join:2008-03-28 | reply to JayMan
I suspect MG reads the forum, it pretty much echoes what we've said all along. |
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babyphat
@afsontario.com |  reply to JayMan
It has been an exciting day for you with all the Rocky news  |
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