CRTC Delays Throttling Decision Until November
The CRTC has once again delayed it’s decision regarding Bell Canada’s practice of throttling it’s 3rd party DSL wholesalers. We SHOULD be expecting an answer in November according to the CBC, but until then, Bell will continue dialing back bandwidth.
CAIP said Bell had broken the Telecommunications Act by changing the terms of its wholesale service without giving its members notice. Bell countered by saying the throttling is necessary to prevent congestion, which is within its network management rights.
Of course, as we reported back in the spring, Bell’s claim of bit torrent traffic hogging all the bandwidth was demonstrably false. It was clear from data provided by TekSavvy, one of the parties affected by Bell, that torrents did not account for as much traffic as Bell claimed. Similarly, packet shaping tech provider Ellacoya, a company that Bell has a financial stake in, stated in a press release that among other activities, legit streaming was the largest and fastest growing segments of traffic use.
All this renders Bell’s argument about congestion moot, and caused some to raise an eyebrow when within a month of the initial announcement, Bell also announced it’s own online video store delivering digital copies for purchase or rent.
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