UPDATE: The CRTC (The actual GOVERNMENT regulator) has asked the CBSC to reconsider their ban. Mostly, because the CRTC has been getting angry complaints about it.

Except, unlike the electric bill, the surcharge per gigabytes has no relationship with the cost of providing such services.

This is actually just a "kill Netflix" play by Rogers & Bell. It's disgusting, and the CRTC is a sham of a regulatory agency.

They must be fucking trying to confuse me those bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because now I'm confused. I am so ridiculously for net neutrality which means all content and applications run over the interner are treated equally.

If this changes. If my internet in Canada becomes censored... Like in China... If the government tries to sway internet traffic by making some content/applications slower than others - I will be protesting in the streets night and day. And I've never protested anything.

In Canada, ISPs were throttling torrents, then, from my understanding, the CRTC (Canadas FCC) declared that throttling certain applications over others was illegal. However it currently remains the responsibility of the customer to determine whether they are being throttled and file a claim. ISPs throttling of the internet is not policed by our government as well it should be. This remains a problem.

In Canada we have a duopoly. Bell and Rogers(Videotron in Quebec) control the whole network. They have recently eliminated unlimited internet plans. Now they've switched to UBB(useage based billing). Anyone who already had an account would retain a "grandfathered" account which meant they would retain their unlimited plans. Bell, however, employed vicious aggressive tactics to eliminate as many grandfathered accounts as possible. This happened to my mother. What they did was they called her and offered her a "free upgrade". They told her she'd have fewer viruses and a faster internet. They did not tell her she would lose her grandfathered unlimited GB plan. Now we're limited to 80 GB a month and charged for every GB over.

As far as UBB goes - it's not the end of the world. I suppose it's fair to pay for the bandwidth you use. What I take issue with is that they offered it to begin with, and then employed disgusting tactics to get rid of it. Tactics they used on customers who have been loyal to them for over 30 years.

Sorry to be so long-winded but this makes me RAAAAAGE.

tl;dr ISPs are evil. Protect Your Internet. WWW.SAVEOURNET.CA

>> ^fjules:
Oh common, everyone knows that nothing will happen to net neutrality. Why? Ok, let's pretend some companies switch over to "not neutral" internet. Guess what happens? One company remains "neutral" and EVERYONE switches to that company making the other ones go bankrupt. Not exactly rocket science, is it?


This is already happening in Canada. The biggest providers (rogers and bell), have both decided to implement traffic shaping and deep packing scanning in order to stop or severely hinder torrent transfers. They were allowed to do this without even disclosing anything, and in fact, rogers went so far as to not tell anyone they were doing this for years. The government has finally made it a requirement that the major service providers disclose their "traffic management practices" a little more clearly so that more of this stuff doesn't happen. While this doesn't do anything except force ISPs to admit they are doing it, at least it's a start, and these practices are being noticed.

CRTC on ISP traffic management

Pirate Radio - Anarchy - I like it!
Say what you want, without having to get permission first!

In Canada, the CRTC controls EVERYTHING! First you must beg your case before you can brodcast your own wants - Almost no one gets accepted... Unless you play their game!

Edit: Awe Crap, not the records, Don't kill the records!

I presume the CRTC is somehow at fault.

Or MTV Canada.

Even with the lumber issue, although he makes some very cogent points in favour of our lumber industry, he also points out (indirectly) that our CRTC does impose quite a bit of cultural protectionism which does, technically, impede strict interpretations of free trade. So everyone's impeding someone somewhere...

CRTC, explained: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRTC