P2P throttling now in Canada
Bell Canada admitted today that it started blocking P2P traffic during peak hours beginning on March 14. An article on this can be found here.
Michael Geist, Canada’s leading Internet law scholar, has posted on this new development on his blog. Bell Canada seems to claim that they are entitled to do this based on the usage contract. Already though, there are fears that this behavior is anti-competitive.
Looks like the Comcast battle will head north!
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bepa
March 31, 2008 @ 8:29 am
As a follow-up to this, a labour union in Canada has asked the CRTC (Canada’s version of the FCC) to look into the legality of traffic shaping and institute rules.
See the story here:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/03/28/tech-netneutrality.html
dorcquek
March 31, 2008 @ 11:05 am
Hi
Another related article on how ISPs in Canada restricted downloads of CBC’s programs through BitTorrrent:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/03/26/bittorrent-cbc.html