Charlie Angus calls on Tony Clement to require Net neutrality checks
SaveOurNet.ca points to a letter written by NDP MP Charlie Angus to Industry Minister Tony Clement late last year on net neutrality. The money paragraph focuses on the enforcement side of the CRTC's Internet traffic management guidelines:
I urge you to do what is in your power to curtail ISP's discriminatory traffic-shaping practices. In order to make Net Neutrality a reality in Canada, I would ask that you direct the CRTC to adopt it as part of Canada's internet policy, and enforce it through regular compliance checks of ISP traffic.
As the traffic management guidelines take effect, Canadians should begin to see more detailed disclosure of ISP traffic management practices and the possibility of complaints or investigations.
Michael Geist is a law professor and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa.
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seth
Jan 7, 2010 at 7:01pm
Current profits in broadband are so high that that Big Telecom could drop your 10 Mbs connection from $60 to $2 a month and still make money.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/time-warner-cab/
Those obscene profits give carriers the money and incentive to buy themselves enough politicians like Harpo to keep the gravy train rolling on.
Until the public gets tired of the graft and changes the way they vote, the corruption will continue.
seth