Class Action Suit Against Bell For Throttling

doppiodave writes "Hard on the heels of the Net Neutrality bill introduced in Canada's Parliament, a class action suit was filed yesterday against Bell by Quebec's Consumers Union, asking that extensive compensation be paid to all Bell's DSL subscribers for fraudulent advertising and privacy violations. The press release is available in French. The timing of this suit coincides with several other developments that suggest Net Neutrality is finally coming to the attention of the general public and Canada's regulator, the CRTC, which recently required Bell to file responses (by May 29) to an exhaustive list of interrogatories about its traffic-shaping practices."

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You /were/ rich.

[Gazzonyx]

Don't think they won't be kindly requesting that cash back, with interest, in your next months service bill. The bill will also, most likely, be accompanied by a change of service terms notice, and a rate increase letter.

I'd like to be pleasantly surprised (my father just retired from Bell/Verizon and without him working there, I wouldn't be in college - I must admit that), but I have a feeling I won't be. It seems that management will cut off their noses to show good numbers for the quarter, while actually losing money in the process of padding the numbers. They're not going to take a loss without passing it on to the customer, and they're probably going to take that opportunity to sweeten the deal for themselves just a little bit more. But, like I said, I really hope I'm wrong.

Re:Sorry but isn't dual language a mandate in Cana

[francisstp]

What the hell are you talking about? Only New Brunswick is legally bilingual, all other provinces are English only except Québec which is French only.

See for example the Alberta provincial government website. See any French option?

Comcast Caught Throttling 2 days ago with You Tube

[FromTheAir]

Had problems with You Tube video for several days which would stop playing for 15 - 30 seconds and then start again.

Wondered is it You Tube servers or ISP (Comcast)?

Did speed tests there were fluctuations but plenty of bandwidth for the video. Everything else but You Tube had a crisp response. Switched cable to backup DSL (AT&T) which is much slower than the cable connection. Many people would not be able to do this type of test usually only having one provider at a house.

The You Tube problem went away. Which means it was not the PC, or You Tube servers, but having to do with packet transport.

So this shows that Comcast was ruining the You Tube experience for sure.

whether they are intentionally throttling or not is not is still a question.

Doing a trace route we can see issue for sure poor network engineering. Comcast 8 hops to Washington DC & Va, AT&T 4 hops to Chicago. It could also be that Comcast is routing it packets some intelligence agency packet sniffing hub which is causing the delay.

Any other thoughts?