Here is an interesting article from the CBC summarising the issues discussed during the recent CRTC hearings on network neutrality. The CRTC is being asked to consider a number of related issues, including P2P throttling, network management, and competition between wholesale providers and retail ISPs that depend on them. Apparently, the results are to be announced in November.
CRTC to decide on new rules for internet service providers
Should internet service providers be allowed to selectively slow down certain applications when the internet is congested? If they do, how much should they be required to tell their customers?
Those are two of the questions that Canada’s internet regulator must answer in the coming months.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission held hearings from July 6 to 14 on internet traffic management in an effort to determine whether it should set guidelines specifying how ISPs are allowed to manage internet traffic and congestion and if so, what those guidelines should be.