Indie Canadian ISPs Fight BackISP association files formal complaint with CRTC
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old news - 09:18AM Friday Apr 04 2008)
tags: dsl · competition · business · world · Bell Sympatico · TekSavvy Solutions Inc.Canadian law professor
Michael Geist says that The Canadian Association of Internet Providers, Canada's largest ISP association, has filed a Part VII application with the CRTC asking it to demand Bell Canada ceases and desists the throttling of wholesale partners. As
we've been following, the Canadian telco last week unexpectedly started throttling P2P on the networks of all their wholesale partners, who had been offering un-throttled service to compete with Bell's throttled Sympatico service. From the CAIP's complaint:
Bell's traffic shaping measures have impaired the speed and performance of the wholesale ADSL access services that it provides to independent ISPs and other competitors, to the point where the quality of the service has been degraded beyond recognition. In light of these effects, CAIP says "it seeks to restrain anti-competitive behaviour on the part of Bell."
The complaint is also trying to argue that the act of throttling requires Bell Canada closely examine the packets of network traffic that technically is not theirs, which constitutes a consumer privacy breach. Teksavvy CEO Rocky Gaudrault
confirms the filing in our forums, telling us he can no longer comment now that the legal ball is rolling. P2PNet has the
full filing for your reading pleasure.