Internet Traffic Shaping — Decision To Be Made Tomorrow

November 19th, 2008 | Posted in web news

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If you’re a Canadian, you may have heard of this. If not, you’re sure to find it interesting anyway, as internet traffic shaping is something that, if allowed, could eventually effect all of us.

Tomorrow (Thursday) an important decision is to be made by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, in regards to net neutrality. You see, this past April, it was alleged that Bell Canada was purposely slowing down the connection speed of of certain users, based on their web activities. Ex. smaller ISPs that lease space from Bell.

Bell’s explanation, is that they are doing this in order to combat those that engage in peer-to-peer down downloading, so that their entire network is not slowed down for regular users. The question to be answered is: what is the truth, and should any type of traffic shaping be allowed? Well, we’ll find out one very important opinion on this tomorrow - the CRTC’s.

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