This hasn’t been posted to the CRTC website yet, but P2PNET news has a copy of the Canadian Association Of Internet Providers response to Bell. It’s a long read, but it effectively blows away all of Bell Canada’s bullshit arguments.
Of course I forgot to mention that Bell responded to the Primus submission (warning: DOC attached) a few days ago with the same FUD that they’ve been using lately. One of the things that jumps out at me is this:
“5. The fact is that the wholesale traffic from all of the ISPs who purchase GAS from Bell Canada and Bell Canada’s retail internet traffic travel on the same path across the access and backbone network. The Company’s traffic management solution applies Deep Packet Inspection policies to all upstream and downstream P2P traffic. Therefore, Primus cannot assume there is no need for traffic management measures by simply looking at the amount of traffic transiting through its own AHSSIP and then assuming the capacity of other ISP’s connections. The level of congestion in Bell Canada’s access, transport or core network cannot be assessed at a single point in the network that can be measured by Primus. The “capacity” of Primus’ network beyond the AHSSPI is not relevant to Bell Canada’s traffic management measures that are applied to its shared network.”
So, is Bell actually saying that they are selling non existent products to ISPs in that they do not have the capacity to provide the bandwidth that they sell? That would be quite a bombshell if that were true.
Another thing to note:
“1. Bell Canada (Bell or the Company) is in receipt of a letter dated 15 April 2008 from Primus Telecommunications Inc. (Primus) submitted as an Answer to the Canadian Association of Internet Providers’ (CAIPs’) application of 3 April 2008 against Bell Canada’s network management practices with regard to Bell’s wholesale Internet services. Bell Canada submits that the Primus letter is out of process, and thus should not form part of the record for CAIP’s interim relief request.”
I truly hope that the CRTC denies Bell’s request to not include Primus’ complaint. If they do, Primus should make a separate complaint to the CRTC.
Buckle in. It’s about to get bumpy!
CRTC To Hold Hearings On Internet Regulation…. And More
Posted in Commentary with tags Bell, CAIP, CRTC, Net Neutrality on May 15, 2008 by itnerdThis news via the Toronto Star made me smile. The CRTC are going to hold public hearings to see if it should extend its reach into the Internet or not:
“The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission today released a final, 75-page report that summarizes research and stakeholder opinion on a wide range of issues, including Canadian content that’s broadcast online or mobile devices, and the recent debate over Internet Service Providers who deliberately slow certain types of Internet traffic.”
The full report can be found here.
The public is also invited to comment on the issues at http://crtc.newmedia.econsultation.ca until June 15.
As if that wasn’t enough, there news that there’s going to be a decision from the CRTC on throttling by September 27th. That’s the good news. The bad news is that there will be no public hearings.
The document that outlines what will happen next can be found here. You’ll note that Appendix 1 and 2 contain questions the CRTC is asking of Bell and CAIP respectively. There are some interesting questions here that I think should provide some interesting answers from Bell. But this is a good response from the CRTC. IMHO, four months is not an unreasonable amount of time. The only thing I wish would happen is that the public was allowed into the hearings. After all, it’s the public that is being impacted by Bell’s throttling is it not?
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