Things continue to heat up Up North as critics of Bell Canada's P2P throttling practices get more vocal. This time, it's Wireless Nomad, a small ISP that's filed papers with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission asking that Bell Canada, which is using deep packet inspection to throttle all P2P traffic between 4:30 p.m. and 2 a.m., be forced to stop.
Bell has been shaping traffic on its own network since last year, but in March began to encompass resellers of its Internet service-against their will. The small ISPs forced to use Bell are ticked, and the CRTC agrees it's an issue that needs to be dealt with now.
For more:
- Check out Ars Technica's story [1]
Related articles:
Bell Canada throttling sparking uproar [2]
Comcast faces heat for throttling [3]
Links:
[1] http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080424-p2p-throttling-leading-to-net-neutrality-showdown-in-canada.html
[2] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/bell-canada-throttling-sparking-uproar/2008-04-22
[3] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/witnesses-rip-isps-fcc-over-internet-regulation/2008-04-18