CAIP vs. Bell – Round One
In the latest news regarding the Bell bandwidth throttling issue, the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) has filed a Cease And Desist application with the CRTC, to put an end to Bell’s packet shaping. From the press release:
Tom Copeland, Chair of CAIP states, ” Bell has undertaken an activity that it has no regulatory authority to do and it did so without notifying it’s wholesale ISP customers which it has a legal responsibility to do before making such changes. It did so without the knowledge of its customers and the CRTC. We believe this is an abuse of Bell’s dominance in the market and it puts Canadian ISPs at a competitive disadvantage”.
The industry association, the largest in Canada, has asked the CRTC to provide relief on an expedited basis and hopes to return a normal level of service to Internet users across Ontario and Quebec within ten days.
The CAIP press release mentions that some 3rd party customers are seeing upwards of 90% reduction in their P2P traffic. The full CAIP application can be read here in PDF form.
Still unconfirmed is TekSavvy’s report that it’s more than just P2P traffic being throttled, as mentioned here last week.
[…] the heart of the matter is whether Bell, the nation’s largest DSL provider should be able to throttle the traffic of wholesale 3rd party ISPs. There has been much evidence presented in the past that Bell has misrepresented the extent of P2P […]
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