Business Takes Sides in Net Neutrality Debate

Toronto Star, July 14, 2008
By Michael Geist

For most of the past two years, the Net Neutrality issue was limited to academics and consumer groups pointing to the dangers to the public of a two-tier Internet. That dynamic changed dramatically this year when Bell Canada began "deep-packet inspection" of its traffic and limited the bandwidth it allocates to certain applications at peak times.

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