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Re: The Dawn of Net Neutrality in Canada?
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Anonymous
The cablecos have a real conflict of interest here in that their cable television operations directly compete with much of the content on which they want to place a delivery tariff. Raising the price of competing products is to their benefit.
While there may be other factors at play, it is perhaps not surprising that Rogers places monthly bandwidth caps on their internet customers, while Bell does not. Moreover, Rogers engages in active traffic shaping on its IP networks and has been accused of throttling the bandwidth for P2P users, notably for traffic associated with bittorrent, a key method of sharing movies and television programs on the internet.
Clearly, we cannot let parties with such conflicts determine the openness of our networks. There is definitely a role for government to more proactive on this file.
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