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Potential end of unlimited internet: Bell's tariff request (pg. 2)
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
The tariff request impacts WHOLESALE DSL customers (i.e. non-Bell DSL users).
The tariff request is punitive action on Bell's part because the CRTC ordered them to stop traffic shaping/filtering.
It's a bad trend overall because we should be moving away from this type of crap and on to faster speeds, wider pipes. |
ah gotcha, thanks for the clarification
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| Djsketchbag |
| quote: | Originally posted by jon jon
done. |
+1 and i told them i worked for Rogers too LoL |
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| Abercrombie |
Bell already did this about 10 years ago when I was a customer (capping unlimited and charging for over-downloading), and it backfired. I moved to Aurora Cable Internet. They got rid of it after about a year, but I stayed on with ACI (now Rogers).
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
the CRTC ordered them to stop traffic shaping/filtering.
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Cable companies too? Is this why my torrents are lightning fast compared to last summer? |
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| SasH21 |
| Yup, I submitted a comment too. They better reject it... |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
The tariff request is punitive action on Bell's part because the CRTC ordered them to stop traffic shaping/filtering.
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Sorry, but I believe Bell won the right to keep shaping. I think the ruling stated that Bell could continue to shape, because they were doing it to their wholesalers and actual customers as well. Are we misunderstanding each other? |
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| patpicos |
done. Man is that www ever slow!
Good thing im on cogeco SOHO, 120GB baby :)
still crappy in comparison to cheap 10/100/1000 mbit in Netherlands, Sweden and many other euro countries |
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| Sly_Guy |
| done. Ain' no one stopping my pr0n |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
This is what happens when infrastructure companies also become media companies. if you are downloading what you could be viewing through a Bell PVR, how are they going to make money?
you bell, and the subsidized horse you came in on. |
This, a thousand times this
They should split bell up into a few different companies like they did in the states years ago. They're too big and powerful. |
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
Sorry, but I believe Bell won the right to keep shaping. I think the ruling stated that Bell could continue to shape, because they were doing it to their wholesalers and actual customers as well. Are we misunderstanding each other? |
One of the main problems was that Bell was shaping wholesalers more than they were their own customers and not offering the same Rx/Tx speeds they themselves offered.
CRTC required Telecom providers (Bell/Telus/etc.) to provide ISPs with wholesale service speeds that match those that they offer to their own retail customers.
So yes, you are correct (and more specific [IMO] than needed in this case). |
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| Ravist |
| bell is taking the phrase "greed will imprison us all" literally |
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