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 considered:
Sources advise that the company was regularly asked about its intentions and that it consistently assured ISPs that throttling would not apply to wholesale services. Now that the company has dropped that pretense, the business community is left to wonder whether it will soon target business VPN traffic or broadcasters like the CBC for their streamed traffic.  This represents a fundamental reshaping of the Internet …read more

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 their pipe, right?  Close, but there is a twist, Bell Canada sells access to the pipe to other ISPs (Telus does the same thing) and neglected to inform the resellers of this little detail:
Up in Canada, it appears that Bell Canada has decided to start implementing traffic shaping features without letting its resellers know. That means that customers are discovering that their traffic is being impeded at …read more