[RndTbl] "toaster" neutrality ...

[Robert Dyck]

Shaw trottles any Bit Torrent connections. If you establish anything
with Bit Torrent, your entire connection is dramatically slowed. And
they had completely blocked MTS webmail. Conversely MTS had blocked Shaw
webmail. Both have removed that block, but this demonstrates someone has
to be vigilant. The article also describes a labour dispute with Bell
Canada, where they completely blocked any web information they could
find supporting the labour side of that dispute. All the big carriers
hate small carrier competition, they will do everything they can to
sabotage performance of these small carriers. They want usage based
billing, despite the fact they already charge more for faster
connections. Internet connections are paid for to be used, so faster
connections are supposed to download more content, customers are already
paying for it. Charging extra for usage is double billing. But Bell
wants to charge a premium for Netflix, or any competitor for their paid
content service. Reducing performance or charging extra for competitors
is anti-competitive business practice. All the major carriers are
engaging in them. We need to be vigilant, and we need clear laws that
make that sort of thing illegal.
 
Rob Dyck
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