The ongoing saga of Bell Canada and their data throttling is getting even more interesting now as Bell has told the CRTC to, essentially, buzz off and let us do as we wish:
The CRTC on March 3 reiterated that third-party companies should continue to be able to rent telephone companies’ networks in order to provide their own customers with phone and internet services. The regulator considered this network access as essential for smaller companies to offer their services, and for some of them to survive.
In its appeal, Bell said such regulation is no longer necessary now that there is enough …read more

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

Caught on Techvibes earlier today:
The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) is hosting a presentation on April 3rd in Vancouver titled The Law and the Internet: What you can and cannot do. Source: Internet Law: What You Can and Cannot Do | Techvibes Blog
The speaker is the esteemed Michael Geist, who I met a couple years ago at MESH if I remember correctly.  I wish I could go to this session because, as you know, I’ve had my own brushes with online journalism and the law.  Maybe someone (Rebecca? Colleen?) could live blog it.
Regardless you can register online for the event.  I’d say …read more