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CRTC decision already having effect?

By Doug Groves | Published: October 26, 2009
Last week, the CRTC released it’s initial net neutrality decision, which was quickly followed by a wide range of opinions, from pie-in-the-sky to “The sky is falling“. More reasonable responses suggested that the ruling wasn’t bad, and the head of a 3rd party ISP or two even said it was pretty good overall, [...]
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CRTC ruling merely “a framework”

By Doug Groves | Published: October 21, 2009
The CRTC has finally ruled in the long standing Bell throttling case. The ruling is a bit of a mish-mash of both good and bad, and a fair bit of haziness. Although there is a requirement of transparency from the major ISPs to both their retail and wholesale customers, it looks like Internet [...]
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Episode 018 – Net talk

By Doug Groves | Published: July 18, 2009
It’s an extra large dose of rgb this episode, as we discuss Google’s new OS, as well as a number of new developments from the company that will ‘do no evil’. We also talk about the new high speed initiatives from the major telecoms, Microsoft’s new branding strategies, and much more. Don’t forget that the Toronto [...]
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Net Neutrality In Canada: An Update

By Doug Groves | Published: July 14, 2009
Last week, the CRTC began conducting its hearing into the status of a number of issues facing Canada’s digital future, not the least of which is throttling practices.  Since it’s launch just about all the major players, from telecoms to creative associations and private individuals have all had their say. There’s still at least one more [...]
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Canadian Throttling: It’s Not Just For P2P

By Doug Groves | Published: April 4, 2008
The issue of net neutrality is quickly coming to a head here in Canada.  It’s been long known that the largest cable internet provider Rogers has been throttling P2P activity, but since the announcement a couple of weeks ago that Bell would start throttling P2P on it’s 3rd party wholesale lines (which would affect DSL [...]
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