April 2008
160 posts
Community Media: Selected Clippings - 03/30/08 →
City to begin programming on cable TV channel by Andy Powell Gadsden Times (AL) 03/30/08 [ 15 comments ] Sometime in May, Gadsden City Council President Ben Reed might sit up straight in his chair…
March 2008
96 posts
mediacastermagazine.com - Mediacaster - 3/31/2008 →
Remarkk! " Bell Canada hands Net Neutrality... →
Net neutrality in Canada under siege: Bell... →
Net neutrality in Canada under siege: Bell implements “traffic shaping” service to throttle Internet access By Michael Lithgow, March 31, 2008Comments (0) Bell Canada - Canada’s largest internet…
Bell Canada traffic shaping: update III →
p2pnet news | Freedom:- “Traffic shaping” by Canadian ISPs must be investigated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), says the National Union of Public and…
Net neutrality in Canada under siege: Bell... →
Net neutrality in Canada under siege: Bell implements “traffic shaping” service to throttle Internet access By Michael Lithgow, March 31, 2008Comments (0) Bell Canada - Canada’s largest internet…
Column 2 by Sandy Kemsley : Jason Laszlo gives... →
Slaw: Shaping Canadian Web Access Revisited →
Shaping Canadian Web Access Revisited →
Last week Simon Fodden caught all of us up on the issue of “throttling” of web access by Bell Canada that broke in the news in his post When It All Goes Peer Shaped. This issue has continued to be…
New Bell Canada scandal looms →
p2pnet news | P2P:- Canada’s largest ISP, Bell Canada, is powering ahead with its traffic shaping ‘traffic management’ plan. It might have been a virtual fait accompli by now had not p2pnet’s…
What's next? →
Last week’s posts [here and here] that looked at traffic management on Bell’s wholesale DSL services generated a record amount of traffic for this website, a lot of comments - attached to my blog…
Net-Neutrality - 5 Reasons Canadians Should be... →
By now, any Canadian who pays attention to Net-Neutrality issues, has likely heard about the controversy surrounding the fact that Bell Canada has been throttling the traffic of its ISP customers….
links for 2008-03-30 →
Remarkk! » Bell Canada hands Net Neutrality advocates a gift! Wow. Like … WOW. I think someone might be undergoing some media training. (tags: bell+canada media+relations)
Jason Laszlo gives Bell Canada a(nother) black eye →
http://www.column2.com/2008/03/jason-laszlo-gives-bell-canada-another-black-eye/. All week, the local tech community has been buzzing around the news that Bell Canada is throttling P2P traffic —…
Global minilinks for 2008-03-29 →
Israel Adopts Fair Use In their reform of national copyright law, Israel opts for an open-ended and court-defined idea of fair use, similar to the United States. India Wants Blackberry Crypto On the…
Net neutrality? Oh Canada! →
Net neutrality? Oh Canada! Dear Canada, you’re doing it all wrong! OK, so I love my adopted nation. I do. But, what’s a guy (or gal) got to do to get affordable, unmolested bandwidth in this…
Net neutrality? Oh Canada! →
Net neutrality? Oh Canada! Dear Canada, you’re doing it all wrong! OK, so I love my adopted nation. I do. But, what’s a guy (or gal) got to do to get affordable, unmolested bandwidth in this…
Michael Geist - The Bell Wake-Up Call →
Union urges CRTC to curb internet interference by... →
NUPGE asks CRTC to investigate Internet 'traffic... →
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) has asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to investigate the impact of “traffic shaping” by Internet…
Bell Canada and Net Neutrality →
Bell Canada is traffic shaping to restrict the speed of data on P2P networks. Mark Kuznicki has written a good reference piece on his blog. The piece is titled Bell Canada Hands Net Neutrality…
Bell Canada and Net Neutrality →
Bell Canada is traffic shaping to restrict the speed of data on P2P networks. Mark Kuznicki has written a good reference piece on his blog. The piece is titled Bell Canada Hands Net Neutrality…
Bell Canada hands Net Neutrality advocates a gift! →
Bell Canada Associate Director of Media Relations Jason Laszlo made a real boner move, boasting on Facebook of his ability to snow journalists with his network management bafflegab, referring to…
NDP's Charlie Angus on Net Neutrality: Throttling... →
NDP’s Charlie Angus on Net Neutrality: Throttling net traffic sets dangerous precedent, The following is from a posting on CharlieAngus.ca: NEW RULES ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT NET NEUTRALITY: Throttling…
Links 29/03/2008: Thumbs up to GNU/Linux ‘Home... →
Links 29/03/2008: Thumbs up to GNU/Linux ‘Home Server’; 400,000 Linux Laptops in Peru Posted in News Roundup at 12:52 pm by Roy Schestowitz Linux in schools can save the planet No Recession at Red…
Net Neutrality In Canada →
Michael Geist has posted on how the recent issue with Bell Canada (throttling P2P traffic on ISP resellers) is bringing into the light the issue of Net Neutrality and Free Speech in Canada.
Mailing campaign on Canadian net neutrality →
I just realized that neutrality.ca is still updating, but it’s in chronological rather than reverse chronological order. Look at the bottom for new posts. The plan of defense right now appears to be…
Well, I’m throttled →
Unfortunately I had to hear about this from an American site. Here’s the story as it unfolded: Page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4. Once again, here’s my HTTP mirrors for NIN’s Ghosts, and for Canada’s…
Bell Canada Hijacks Al's Invention; Comcast... →
Net Neutrality While Comcast began backtracking (well, sort of) on its policy of shutting down certain Internet traffic, those north of the 49th parallel look like they’re about to become…
It’s time to deal with the Net Neutrality issue →
It seems that Canada may have finally woken up to the Net Neutrality issue that’s recieved far, far more press in the U.S. - though I’d still argue not enough. (If you want a really good detail on…
Net Neutrality In Canada - The Debate Starts Now →
You can now add Rogers to the list of ISP’s who do stupid things. This morning they announced that so called “bandwidth hogs” who exceed their allotted limits on Rogers’s networks will face…
Comcast deals with BitTorrent →
p2pnet news | P2P:- “Comcast Corp. promised Thursday that it would not discriminate against specific Internet traffic on its network, ending its controversial practice of targeting and blocking…
CBC Torrent Caught Up in ISPs’ BitTorrent... →
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recently made a bold decision to release an episode of the show Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister through BitTorrent. The move was remarkable not only because…
Net Neutrality In Canada →
Net Neutrality In Canada Michael Geist has posted on how the recent clusterfuck with Bell (throttling P2P traffic on ISP resellers) is bringing into the light the issue of Net Neutrality and Free…
Net Neutrality – Not in Bell Canada’s Vocabulary →
Much has been written about net neutrality, or rather the lack of, and it is clear that many backbone providers have been practicing Traffic Shaping, that’s the fancy word they use for the practice…
For whom does the Bell (Sympatico) sound? →
p2pnet news | P2P:- For months, I’ve been asked repeatedly why net neutrality has not taken off as a Canadian political and regulatory issue. While there has been some press coverage, several…
Bell Canada and Net Neutrality →
Recent story in The Globe and Mail regarding the throttling of P2P traffic as well as recent discussions on various forums, have determined that Bell Canada is now throttling all P2P traffic. Not…
Bell Canada Shapes Up Resellers - Part II →
Bell Canada Shapes Up Resellers - Part II Mar 27th, 2008 by Ben Lucier I had a number of very interesting conversations yesterday with some of Toronto’s independent wholesale ISPs and also with a…
Is the tide turning on Bell Canada and Net... →
The story about Bell Canada throttling traffic on its network is building steam. I covered this a bit yesterday in my post, but Michael Geist adds a couple new wrinkles to this that I hadn’t…
Tariff basis for internet traffic management →
There is a theme in the comments on yesterday’s posting (and in the continued postings and comments on Michael Geist’s blog) that calls into question Bell adhering to its tariffs. I have not seen…
Is the tide turning on Bell Canada and Net... →
The story about Bell Canada throttling traffic on its network is building steam. I covered this a bit yesterday in my post, but Michael Geist adds a couple new wrinkles to this that I hadn’t…
Michael Geist - Behind the Scenes of the CBC... →
Comcast and BitTorrent Collaborate →
In a dramatic turn of events, two companies that seemed to be at each other’s throats just a few months back, Comcast and BitTorrent have decided to join forces and work together to advance ways in…
Comcast and BitTorrent Collaborate →
In a dramatic turn of events, two companies that seemed to be at each other’s throats just a few months back, Comcast and BitTorrent have decided to join forces and work together to advance ways in…
Ouch Bell Canada Throttles Bandwidth Without... →
The news floating around over the past 24 hours has been the news that Bell Canada has been “traffic shaping” aka throttling bandwidth on their DSL service. Okay, this isn’t great, but okay it’s…
When It All Goes Peer Shaped →
Net neutrality has slipped away even further in Canada recently, as Bell has “shaped” the bandwidth available to ISPs that rent space on the network from Bell, slowing down peer-to-peer…
Bell Canada - how much further should I bend over? →
Much has been made of the move by the CBC Television Network in Canada to slap one of their shows up on a BitTorrent feed. Everyone from Doc Searls to Boing Boing to Techdirt have been singing the…
Net neutrality issue hits close to home →
There is a brewing controversy over net neutrality: should all Internet traffic be treated the same, or should some traffic (specific web sites or protocols) be treated better than others? The issue…
Bell Canada Forcing all Canadian DSL ISPs to... →
Bell Canada Forcing all Canadian DSL ISPs to Throttle Bit-torrent Traffic or How Sympatico Sux March 26th, 2008 | Category: Geek | 12 Views I am so glad I switched to Rogers last summer! In response…
The Bell Wake-Up Call →
For months, I’ve been asked repeatedly why net neutrality has not taken off as a Canadian political and regulatory issue. While there has been some press coverage, several high-profile incidents, and…
