Feb 28 2009

Canadian ISPs Speak Out Against Net Neutrality

Ars Technica reports on a proceeding being held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission regarding net neutrality. They requested comments from the public as part of the debate, and several Canadian ISPs took the opportunity to explain why they think it’s a bad idea. Quoting: “One of the more interesting responses came from an ISP called Videotron, which told the CRTC that controlling access to content … ‘could be beneficial not only to users of Internet services but to society in general.’ As examples of such benefits, Videotron mentioned the control of spam, viruses, and child pornography. It went on to suggest that graduated response rules — kicking users off the ‘Net after several accusations of copyright infringement — could also be included as a benefit to society in general. … Rogers, one of Canada’s big ISPs, also chimed in and explained that new regulations might limit its ability to throttle P2P uploads, which it does at the moment. ‘P2P file sharing is designed to cause network congestion,’ says the company. ‘It contributes significantly to latency, thereby making the network unreliable for certain users at periods of such congestion.'”

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Feb 20 2009

SingTel to sell Google phones in Singapore from Feb 21 – Reuters


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SingTel to sell Google phones in Singapore from Feb 21
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SINGAPORE, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Singapore Telecommunications (STEL.SI) said on Friday it will begin selling the HTC Dream, or Google mobile phone, in Singapore from Feb. 21, making it the second market in Asia to see their launch.
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Feb 17 2009

CRTC Mulls Canadian Content On the Internet

PsiCTO writes “The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is going to weigh Internet content regulation — this could mean requiring some amount of Canadian content coming across Canadian pipes. The CRTC is akin to the FCC. They get that they can’t ‘regulate’ the Internet, but are proposing to promote additional Canadian content in some way, as is currently done with radio and TV content. Likely they will discuss tax credits, subsidies, grants, or other traditional mechanisms. What do people think about this? Are there similar efforts, existing or proposed, in other countries?”

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Jan 22 2009

How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet – Ars Technica


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How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet
Ars Technica – 21 Jan 2009
By Nate Anderson | Published: January 21, 2009 – 05:05AM CT Canada's Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) famously decided last year to allow Bell Canada to single out P2P traffic for bandwidth throttling between the hours of
All major Canadian ISP's throttling P2P Neowin
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Jan 22 2009

How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet – Ars Technica


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How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet
Ars Technica – 21 Jan 2009
By Nate Anderson | Published: January 21, 2009 – 05:05AM CT Canada's Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) famously decided last year to allow Bell Canada to single out P2P traffic for bandwidth throttling between the hours of
All major Canadian ISP's throttling P2P Neowin
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Jan 22 2009

How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet – Ars Technica


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How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet
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By Nate Anderson | Published: January 21, 2009 – 05:05AM CT Canada's Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) famously decided last year to allow Bell Canada to single out P2P traffic for bandwidth throttling between the hours of
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Jan 21 2009

How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet – Ars Technica


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How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet
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By Nate Anderson | Published: January 21, 2009 – 05:05AM CT Canada's Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) famously decided last year to allow Bell Canada to single out P2P traffic for bandwidth throttling between the hours of
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Jan 13 2009

Mariner, SaskTel sign IPTV service deal – Telegraph-Journal

Mariner, SaskTel sign IPTV service deal
Telegraph-Journal – 12 Jan 2009
SAINT JOHN – Mariner Partners Inc., an IT company with its headquarters in Saint John will announce today it has penned a deal with SaskTel, a Saskatchewan-based telecommunications company, to implement xVu, its Internet protocol TV service assurance
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Jan 13 2009

Mariner, SaskTel sign IPTV service deal – Telegraph-Journal

Mariner, SaskTel sign IPTV service deal
Telegraph-Journal – 12 Jan 2009
SAINT JOHN – Mariner Partners Inc., an IT company with its headquarters in Saint John will announce today it has penned a deal with SaskTel, a Saskatchewan-based telecommunications company, to implement xVu, its Internet protocol TV service assurance
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Jan 13 2009

Mariner, SaskTel sign IPTV service deal – Telegraph-Journal

Mariner, SaskTel sign IPTV service deal
Telegraph-Journal – 12 Jan 2009
SAINT JOHN – Mariner Partners Inc., an IT company with its headquarters in Saint John will announce today it has penned a deal with SaskTel, a Saskatchewan-based telecommunications company, to implement xVu, its Internet protocol TV service assurance
SaskTel Turns to Mariner for Real-Time IPTV Service Assurance MSNBC
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