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Bell Canada Throttles Wholesalers Without Notice

Posted by kdawson on from the because-it's-my-last-kilometer-that's-why dept.

knorthern knight writes "The Canadian family-run ISP Teksavvy (which is popular among Canadian P2P users precisely because it does not throttle P2P) has started noticing that Bell Canada is throttling traffic before it reaches wholesale partners. According to Teksavvy CEO Rocky Gaudrault, Bell has implemented 'load balancing' to 'manage bandwidth demand' during peak congestion times — but apparently didn't feel the need to inform partner ISPs or customers. The result is a bevy of annoyed customers and carriers across the great white north."

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  1. But what about the CBC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They just started to release their programs as torrents that are DRM FREE!!!!!

    We hope you enjoyed tonight's show! As announced, CBC is happy to present Canada's Next Great Prime Minister to you as a DRM-free bittorrent file which you can download, share & enjoy. First, pick which file you want to download:

    Xvid AVI at 720x486
    or
    264 MPEG-4 at 320x240

    Maybe marketplace should do a story about Bell and Rogers regarding this throttling...