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CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 20, 2008 @05:21AM from the throttle-away dept.

pparsons writes "Bell Canada Inc. will not have to suspend its practice of 'shaping' traffic on the Internet after a group of companies that resell access to Bell's network complained their customers were also being negatively affected. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission today released a decision that denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers' request that Bell be ordered to cease its application of the practice to its wholesale customers."

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Thanks... by TheNecromancer · 2008-11-20 05:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

Now I can sleep well at night, knowing the unique environment you are in.

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NOOOOO! It's as if ... by WillAffleckUW · 2008-11-20 06:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

NOOOOO!
It's as if a million Canadian voices shouted out in pain as their lives were snuffed by the big corporate greedheads!

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