Major Opposition Mounts By Eve of Municiple Broadband Vote
It’s certainly a big debate in the United States – namely in two cities in the state of North Carolina – but should barriers be erected to stop city governments from creating their own ISP in the name of competition in a marketplace? That appears to about to be decided on and efforts to [...]
Telus Denies Allegations Arising from ‘Death of the Internet’ Blog Posting
There’s a new conspiracy theory afloat online alleging the death of the internet as we know it. The theory suggests that ISPs in Canada are attempting to make Canada a test-bed for charging a per website visit fee with the rest of the world to follow. Telus, one of Canada’s largest ISP’s responded [...]
Bell Canada – No Really, We Are Overloaded! 8% Congested in 2 Cases!
The network neutrality debate took an interesting turn today. As mandated by the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), Bell Canada has publicly disclosed some figures to try and prove its case – figures that have some users laughing.
Bell Canada seems to have a hard sell – convince everyone that throttling wholesalers as well [...]
Bell – We Are Transparent to Our Customers, CIPPIC – Do Tell
Somewhere between the debate of Bell throttling their users and politicians tabling network neutrality legislation are a host of smaller debates such as privacy and transparency. It seems that Bell suggesting that they are transparent to their users sparked some criticisms.
In Canada, there’s no shortage of controversy over Bells decision to throttle users. [...]
Canada – Net Neutrality Rally Expected on Parliament Hill
There’s no shortage of coverage on the Bell Canada case. Now Canadians are planning on a huge network neutrality rally on the grounds of parliament hill.
Network neutrality in the last few months has stormed its way into the headlines. While the issue has already gone from the headlines to demands with the CRTC, [...]
Bell Canada – We are Overloaded, 33% Capacity Peak is Overloaded
The controversy surrounding Bell Canada throttling not only its customers, but also wholesalers as well has taken a new turn recently. Bell has long argued that they are congested with traffic, but a recent revelation by non other than Bell may have just undermined their argument.
The revelation was followed up by a recent submission [...]
