Well, the last couple of weeks have been a good news/bad news seesaw ride for those of us in the Canadian bandwidth throttling/copyright playground.

As you may recall, last month the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) filed a complaint against Bell-Sympatico with CRTC. The group represents 55 smaller Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Those ISPs resell Bell bandwidth to their customers, many of whom make legitimate use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. Other Canadian carriers, including Rogers, also throttle P2P traffic. CAIP wanted the CRTC to provide immediate relief from Bell's bandwidth throttling of P2P traffic because that throttling was effecting the ISPs own customers and making it impossible to deliver the service the ISPs promised. The complaint was supported by more than 1,000 complaints from individual Canadians.

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