Bell Canada Says Throttling Aids Innovation…. WTF?

Here’s another tidbit from the document that I posted yesterday. Bell is claiming that it’s throttling of Internet connections aids innovation:

“Several parties have claimed that traffic management will hinder innovation. The Commission should see these claims for what they really are: the use of policy rhetoric devoid of substance in order to promote vested business interests. Indeed, the opposite of these claims is clearly the case; necessity is the mother of invention. Without any regard to network capacity, P2P file sharing application designers could develop applications designed to use all of the bandwidth that is available.”

Are these guys living in the Twilight Zone? What could ever possess them to say that? Hopefully the CRTC should see these claims for what they really are: the use of policy rhetoric devoid of substance in order to promote the vested business interests of Bell.

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