Thursday, March 22, 2007
Net Neutrality trouble in Canada
Canadian telcos are cranking up a fight to roll back Network Neutrality under the guise of, "a greater role in content delivery for Telus and Bell Canada." Don't Canadians like being ahead of the pack? Doug Alder writes, "I fear this right wing government has already made up its mind , and not for the better."
Michael Geist has blogged about it cluefully and in great detail here.
Canada, of course, is the country where Telus blocked a telco worker's strike website, and, incidentally, hundreds of other sites. In addition, Michael Geist writes,
Michael Geist has blogged about it cluefully and in great detail here.
Canada, of course, is the country where Telus blocked a telco worker's strike website, and, incidentally, hundreds of other sites. In addition, Michael Geist writes,
Shaw attempted to levy surcharges for Internet telephony services, Rogers quietly limited bandwidth for legitimate peer-to-peer software applications, and Videotron mused publicly about establishing a new Internet transmission tariff that would require content creators to pay millions for the privilege of transmitting their content.It'd be a shame to see Canada go down the (series of) tubes on this. Right now they're the best counter-argument to the mostly bogus claim that, "Japan and Korea are more wired because they're more densely populated."
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Amber Mac http://ambermac.typepad.com/ambermac/2007/03/the_net_neutral.html has been active on trying to engage Canadians.
On the density argument - I like to point out that Denmark and the Netherlands have lower population densities than NJ.
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On the density argument - I like to point out that Denmark and the Netherlands have lower population densities than NJ.
