The Day Canadian Internet Will Be Put on Life Support is March 1st

[Asher]

The nature of how your telecoms regular is acting suggests to me they are heavily "in the pockets" of the industry itself and need a bit of clearing out.

Yep. Most of the commission are former life-long telecom employees/executives. They only cause problems for us. Canadian Content regulations, retarded channel carriage rules for cable/satellite companies, and **** like this...

[Fake Boris]

Time for the government to take a strong arm here.

Interventionism

[Wezil]

The "review" is over.

The Harper government will overturn the CRTC’s decision that effectively ends “unlimited use” Internet plans if the regulator doesn’t rescind the decision itself.

Industry Minister Tony Clement made the surprise announcement late Wednesday night via his closely followed Twitter account.

[notyoueither]

I hope they played my phone call in cabinet.

[Wezil]

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Victory!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/crtc-will-rescind-unlimited-use-internet-decision-or-ottawa-will-overturn-it/article1892522/

The Tories have said unless the CRTC rescinds this ruling, they're going to overturn it.

They're also hauling the chairman of the CRTC infront of a committee to explain himself tomorrow.

for civilization

[Provost Harrison]

Yep. Most of the commission are former life-long telecom employees/executives. They only cause problems for us. Canadian Content regulations, retarded channel carriage rules for cable/satellite companies, and **** like this...

It figures...because I cannot see how such a ruling could possibly be in the interests of the Canadian economy as a whole, and would probably be a significant barrier to economic growth.

But it is nice to see this has been overruled. Let's hope some heads roll for this one too

[N35t0r]

And not the one from the Gurkha thread...

[Asher]

Well....

[Asher]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/metered-internet-in-canada-isnt-quite-dead.ars

Holy **** is this guy stupid.

Even if it changes the billing requirements, CRTC still wants to "find economic ways to discipline the use of the Internet," von Finckenstein said in response to a question. Companies like Netflix are "putting a great stress on the Internet and there's no incentive for companies to invest in maintaining the Internet." Usage-based billing would encourage people to adopt more bandwidth-efficient technologies (or to forgo things like Internet video altogether, which would be terrific for cable operators).

****.

It gets CHEAPER EVERY YEAR to expand capacity. Instead of crippling innovation and gouging Canadians, perhaps the solution to the expanding "problem" of people USING THE BANDWIDTH THEY ARE BEING SOLD is to in fact STOP OVERSELLING YOUR NETWORKS and INCREASE CAPACITY TO MEET DEMAND. The ISPs are incredibly profitable, they can CLEARLY afford to do this.

von ****enstein needs to be fired.

[Provost Harrison]

Well it is good that the government is strongarming them into doing what they should be doing - progressing forward. It just sounds like a glorified cartel by another name from my perspective. The free, cheap movement of data is critical to a modern economy and modern society

[Fake Boris]

Well it is good that the government is strongarming them into doing what they should be doing - progressing forward. It just sounds like a glorified cartel by another name from my perspective. The free, cheap movement of data is critical to a modern economy and modern society

They aren't exactly strongarming this; they merely asked the CRTC to come up with another ruling. Somehow I doubt that we'll get much out of this. They'll probably tone down the harshness of the previous decision, but in the end they're still committed to penalizing heavy usage instead of lackluster investment.

And we're at the brink of a federal election... As stated already, the major ISPs also happen to be the media.

[Asher]

They aren't exactly strongarming this; they merely asked the CRTC to come up with another ruling.

Boris, the government said they'll throw out their ruling or the government will do it for them. It's strongarming.

[Fake Boris]

Did you read the whole post?

[Asher]

Yes. The rest was not relevant to your first statement.