In Canada there is No Doubt that the carriers have been overselling their bandwidth for a long time and I agree that this needs to be addressed. CRTC???

Legitimate file sharing traffic using Peer 2 Peer does exist and one great example is a Canadian start-up, 2Peer.com. Their premise is the “Private Internet”, it may sound a bit hokey but I have to say I am a big fan. I can share our personal photos and videos with my friends and family and don’t have to waste time uploading and sharing from a third party site.

With 2Peer I can share privately from my computer with people I authorize utilizing a peer to peer framework. This way I don’t have to worry about pedophiles, stalkers, and so on looking at my personal family pictures or videos. Just look at the invasion of privacy issues with Facebook and MySpace in the past couple months…

So I guess I should be getting my refund cheque in the mail since my bandwidth is going to be throttled because I use software that is P2P based. Nothing like hindering a Canadian start-up at the same time, way to go Bell!

Lesson learned from Jason Laszlo is that you may want to check out your privacy settings before you make comments in a open world or get a service that is private like 2Peer.com.

That notice was not submited to everyone. As you must not know Sympatico and Bell Nexxia are two different divisions of the same company. Sympatico and other 3rd party ISP buy access from the government regulated (at PPPoE frame relay level) from Bell Nexxia.

That notice was in regards to Bell Sympatico meaning it does not pertain to 3rd party companies.

Im fact it was the 3rd party companies that confronted Bell about this last week and they finally admitted that they were throttling them.

Shady business practices, according to TekSavvys own network graphs overall traffic is down as much as 60%. They did this so people wouldn’t leave Sympatico in droves for a much better internet experience.

I sure did! :)

I’d have to disagree with Heri on this not being news. It is indeed true that Bell Sympatico started screwing their residential customers with this unannounced throttling policy months ago. But the fact that they are now applying the same policy to their wholesale partners, again by stealth, is a different thing altogether.

The reason, as I understand, that Bell is required by law to wholesale their last mile bandwidth to third party ISPs is to promote competition in the ISP market. Bell applying throttling to other ISPs (such as Teksavvy) who sell their service with proud claims of not throttling traffic is anti-competitive and harmful to Canadian business and consumers.

i thought everybody was aware of this, and there is no reason that thirdparty resellers would have unlimited traffic