Da-Chief
07-14-2008, 09:01
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While Bell Canada has so far failed to prove (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/95679) that network congestion (not anti-competitive behavior (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/Bell-Canada-Throttles-Wholesalers-Doesnt-Bother-To-Tell-Them-92915)) prompted them to throttle competing wholesalers without telling anyone, they're still trying their best to argue their way out of trouble. Their latest filing with the Canadian government (http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16364) attacks critics like Dave Burstein (who suggested (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080629-bells-p2p-traffic-issues-easily-and-inexpensively-solved.html) that upgrades would have been inexpensive), and insists that throttling encourages innovation:Several parties have claimed that traffic management will hinder innovation. The Commission should see these claims for what they really are: the use of policy rhetoric devoid of substance in order to promote vested business interests. Indeed, the opposite of these claims is clearly the case; necessity is the mother of invention. Without any regard to network capacity, P2P file sharing application designers could develop applications designed to use all of the bandwidth that is available.
Imagine a world where designers developed applications that actually used bandwidth (the horror, to quote Marlon Brando). Now imagine a world where instead of organically providing supply to meet that demand, companies did everything in their power to kill competition and offer the lowest quality product for the highest cost -- including lie, inflate demand, and throttle competitors so they couldn't offer a superior product.
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While Bell Canada has so far failed to prove (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/95679) that network congestion (not anti-competitive behavior (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/Bell-Canada-Throttles-Wholesalers-Doesnt-Bother-To-Tell-Them-92915)) prompted them to throttle competing wholesalers without telling anyone, they're still trying their best to argue their way out of trouble. Their latest filing with the Canadian government (http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16364) attacks critics like Dave Burstein (who suggested (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080629-bells-p2p-traffic-issues-easily-and-inexpensively-solved.html) that upgrades would have been inexpensive), and insists that throttling encourages innovation:Several parties have claimed that traffic management will hinder innovation. The Commission should see these claims for what they really are: the use of policy rhetoric devoid of substance in order to promote vested business interests. Indeed, the opposite of these claims is clearly the case; necessity is the mother of invention. Without any regard to network capacity, P2P file sharing application designers could develop applications designed to use all of the bandwidth that is available.
Imagine a world where designers developed applications that actually used bandwidth (the horror, to quote Marlon Brando). Now imagine a world where instead of organically providing supply to meet that demand, companies did everything in their power to kill competition and offer the lowest quality product for the highest cost -- including lie, inflate demand, and throttle competitors so they couldn't offer a superior product.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Bell-Canada-Throttling-Aids-Innovation-96084)
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