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Canada Upholds Net Neutrality Rules In Wireless TV Case

Posted by timothy on from the as-long-as-we-can-spy-on-you-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes Canada's telecom regulator has issued a major new decision with implications for net neutrality, ruling that Bell and Videotron violated the Telecommunications Act by granting their own wireless television services an undue preference by exempting them from data charges. Michael Geist examines the decision, noting that the Commission grounded the decision in net neutrality concerns, stating the Bell and Videotron services "may end up inhibiting the introduction and growth of other mobile TV services accessed over the Internet, which reduces innovation and consumer choice."

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  1. Re:Wow by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The more money you have here in the States, the larger your voice is with our government.

    There's a country that has a government where this isn't the case?

  2. Re:Wow by Anrego · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey now, normally the CRTC is as corrupt as they come. This is a group that has been heavily infiltrated by big media, who tried to institute 1996 level data caps, and who's outgoing president whined that the internet is their biggest obstacle to controlling what Canadians watch.

    I'm actually somewhat baffled by what seems to be a series of decisions on their part which appear at face value to be in the interests of the Canadian public and not their telecom friends.

  3. Re:What? by rhazz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's news-worthy is that, despite releasing these reports, the government refuses to actually do anything about them.

    That's not true at all. The current government been undermining Statistics Canada since taking office. Soon the quality of data surrounding these issues will be so poor that they can just say the problem doesn't exist anymore.