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.
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