Bell Canada, the largest telecom provider in Canada, argues that throttling -- the practice of slowing down web speeds for "bandwidth hogs" -- ultimately improves the user experience and stokes innovation.
"It would be counter productive to impose regulatory rules to prevent traffic management techniques that are designed to improve the overall end user internet access experience and to ensure that congestion does not harm innovation in the future," the company said in a letter to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. The letter was published by P2Pnet.net, and is expected to be published on the CRTC site shortly.
Since Bell Canada got busted for throttling traffic earlier this year, it has taken fire from all sides -- in April the Canadian Association of Internet Providers called for a the telco to cease and desist its "traffic management" practices. Google also got in on the act, calling Bell Canada's actions "illegal" and discriminatory.
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