Canada

Rogers Violating Dederal Net Neutrality Rules, CRTC Says

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:43:19 -0500

Full article: CBC News
The CRTC has notified Rogers it has evidence the company is violating federal Net Neutrality rules by deliberately slowing down or "throttling" some of its internet traffic.

Users Choked Up over Internet Throttling

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:15:16 -0500

Full article: Montreal Gazette
Sarah Schmidt
Complaints against Internet providers deliberately slowing down online traffic are way up in Canada, according to the telecom regulator.

Bell Canada Ends Internet Throttling in Favor of Usage-Based Billing

Stevie Converse — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:55:27 -0500

Full article: The Verge
Adi Robertson
Here in the United States the Net Neutrality debate rages on, but Canadian Internet users officially lost the battle three years ago. Now, however, one Internet service provider, Bell Canada, has agreed to stop peer-to-peer throttling.

Dump Big Internet Service Providers

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:27:30 -0500

Full article: Montreal Gazette
Jason Magder
About 94 percent of Canadians get their Internet service from one of a handful of large telecom companies. Now a Net Neutrality lobby group is urging people to dump Big Telecom in droves, in the wake of a decision last week by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecom Commission.

CRTC Tightens Telco Rules

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:42:14 -0400

Full article: Financial Post
Jamie Sturgeon
Striking an unexpectedly interventionist tone, the Canadian broadcast regulator slapped a host of new conditions on the country's biggest telecom conglomerates.

Feel Bad About Your Broadband? Canada Has It Worse.

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:49:14 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Stacey Higginbotham
Shaw, a Canadian ISP that has a broadband cap of 750 GB for its fastest tier, said this week that its online video service would be exempt from data caps. It also offers an unlimited plan as well. Such a move places Shaw's upcoming Movie Club service at an advantage to a competitive movie streaming service such as Netflix which is already having to downgrade its default service in Canada because of bandwidth caps.

Metered Billing: It's a Lack of Competition, not Congestion

Stevie Converse — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:47:14 -0400

Full article: Ars Technica
Matthew Lasar
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has been holding hearings over the last few days about its controversial (and for the moment suspended) move to let Bell Canada bill independent ISPs on a wholesale byte-by-byte basis. Newspaper reports suggest that at least some of the commissioners aren't buying arguments that the telcos need usage-based billing to "discipline" consumers so that they won't congest networks with excessive downloading.

Is Canada's Broadband Plan More Ambitious than the FCC's?

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 09 May 2011 11:27:09 -0400

Full article: Telecompetitor
Joan Engebretson
Canada's telecom regulator CRTC has set a plan in place to achieve nationwide broadband deployment that has some striking similarities to efforts in the U.S. -- as well as some key differences.

Canadians Least Willing to Give Up Internet

Stevie Converse — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:08:33 -0400

Full article: Canoe.ca
A new poll found Canadians are least willing to give up their Internet connection (42%) compared to TV package (24%), mobile phone service (17%) and newspaper delivery (17%). Older Canadians, however, were more reluctant to give up their print news than the average person.

Bandwidth Caps Force Netflix to Cut Video Quality in Canada

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:03:33 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Ryan Lawler
Netflix is lowering the quality of its streaming movie service in Canada by default to deal with bandwidth caps introduced by ISPs there.