Since Bell Canada was accused of throttling P2P traffic back in March they have freely admitted the practice, and claimed it was necessary because of its affect on their network. In May the company defended their actions in a filing with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), as part of their public inquiry into the matter. Unfortunately the actual traffic ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by windsong: I wonder if they throttle their own video downloading service...I think not!
this is where there arguments fall flat on their face as their promoted services are given priority, which is why there is so much speak of net neutrality as they wish to make the internet a, by site subscription based service instead of the current open for all model.
its much the same in the UK, tiscali even publicly announced that if a service didn't want to be throttled to death the owners of the URL's have to pay up for the privilege of tiscali allowing it.
I would love to see that report. The only competition Bell has is with Rogers and they throttle just as much as Bell.
Personally I don't believe for a second this is about traffic issues but padding their fat pockets...I just want them to admit it.
Otherwise as the previous poster stated why would they open up a online video downloading service???? That doesn't make any sense.
"Oh we need to throttle everyone's speed because we're having serious network issues with people downloading huge files. But wait, feel free to download huge freaking files on our brand new online video store for only $19.99"
Ugh...they really do think their customers are pretty stupid don't they.
Originally posted by xempler: I would love to see that report. The only competition Bell has is with Rogers and they throttle just as much as Bell.
Personally I don't believe for a second this is about traffic issues but padding their fat pockets...I just want them to admit it.
Otherwise as the previous poster stated why would they open up a online video downloading service???? That doesn't make any sense.
"Oh we need to throttle everyone's speed because we're having serious network issues with people downloading huge files. But wait, feel free to download huge freaking files on our brand new online video store for only $19.99"
Ugh...they really do think their customers are pretty stupid don't they.
Shaw also is a big contender, and I'm pretty sure they throttle too from what i've read. Though I still get speeds around 400-600kb for some torrents, I have 10mbps connection though :p.
rawraw, I am sure you got that one right. I am sure they all do throttle some much more than others. The public has a right to know what they are really buying. In the US there are many areas that companies were given manopolies. Those areas the users can be throttled with impunity since they only place they can go is back to dial up.
