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Canadian Network Neutrality Complaints Rise Sharply
As Rogers Continues to Bumble Network Management

Back in 2009, Canada passed network neutrality rules designed to protect consumers from anti-competitive treatment of network traffic, though at the time there was a lot of concern about the rules being adequately enforced. Last year a request made of government data revealed that there were fifty two complaints made over the first two years the rules were in place, with roughly half of those having to do with Rogers and their total inability to keep their network management systems under control. Since last fall however, complaints have spiked with 51 complaints having been filed since last September.

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The new rules have changed the way many Canadian ISPs tackle traffic management, with Bell announcing last December they'd be backing off throttling completely. However Rogers not only continues to throttle legitimate applications, they continue to insist they're in total compliance with CRTC rules -- despite that clearly and repeatedly not being true:
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Rogers is not tipping its hand about any upcoming change to its traffic management policy, but says it operates in "complete compliance" with CRTC's traffic management guidelines. "It's something that our network people look at all the time, and we are constantly evaluating, but we have nothing to announce today," Ken Engelhart, senior vice-president of regulatory affairs, said in an interview Thursday. Engelhart added that past technical glitches with its popular World of Warcraft game have been solved...
Users in our forums continue to complain that Rogers is engaging in some of the upstream-traffic-choking TCP packet hijinks that got Comcast in so much trouble here in the States. It is expected that Rogers will ultimately buckle and move to more intelligent network management, but for now it remains clear that denial is their primary strategy. While Rogers broadband users may not be seeing more intelligent network management just yet, they are getting a new price increase as a new year's present.
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DataRiker
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North American broadband

hyper inflated prices and overly restrictive policies. There is no excuse for doing this to a persons connection that they are paying good money for.

Insert standard shill excuses below:
zed260
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zed260

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Re: North American broadband

said by DataRiker:

hyper inflated prices and overly restrictive policies. There is no excuse for doing this to a persons connection that they are paying good money for.

Insert standard shill excuses below:

only way your see any change is a complete reworking of the us goverment similer to what happened in Egypt etc the big lobbying companys are to ingraned to be stoped any other way

DataRiker
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DataRiker

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This article is concerned with Canada, but yes I agree with you as a whole about North America.
chgo_man99
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The cost of living in the UK, Germany or France is higher than in the US or Canada.

They have cheap higher education and "free" healthcare though.

And in the UK your student loans are deferred until u find job and monthly payments are determined by your income. Lower interest rates too.

DataRiker
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DataRiker

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Re: North American broadband

We have something similar on student loans with IBR but it will be axed this summer.
Joe12345678
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how does that work if say you work a McDonald's? even if it's just while looking for a job?

DataRiker
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DataRiker

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If you are working at McDonalds on IBR your monthly payment would be 0 dollars. IF thats what your asking

Chucks Truck
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I believe Rogers is the worst throttler in the entire world

In a study Rogers was the worst throttler on this planet. I guess Bell Canada is very close behind and i don't believe Bell will stop throttling they'll just throttle less when the time comes. We'll see this March and remember where you heard it first. From me Chucks Truck.