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Bell Entertainment Service: the Results are Impressive

October 20, 2009
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This is a follow-up to an earlier post regarding how Bell’s new Entertainment Service works. Specifically, this post will discuss the overall bandwidth expectations a subscriber can expect. The Entertainment Service is a converged service. This means that television and Internet services are provided over a single VDSL line from Bell.
Internet speeds.
Our speedtests showed impressive [...]

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IPTV television service from Bell – How it works

October 12, 2009
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Bell Canada has finally launched their super cool IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) service. As a technology guy, when a new product or service arrives, I feel it is my obligation to sign up for it. This way, when friends, family members and colleagues ask me about it, I can continue to provide a valuable service. [...]

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Is the Canadian Internet and innovation at risk due to poor planning?

June 25, 2008

A few months ago, I was contacted by Steve Andersen who asked me if I would donate my domain name, SaveOurNet.ca to a coalition he’s been working on with a mandate to educate consumers and businesses on the importance of Net Neutrality and to force the Canadian government to realize that we need a plan [...]

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CAIP Requests Cease and Desist from CRTC in Bell Canada Net Neutrality Fight

April 4, 2008

Michael Geist, ever the source for relevant and timely news on the net neutrality debate in Canada has a great post this morning discussing the specifics surrounding a Part VII request filed with the CRTC yesterday by the Canadian Association of Internet Providers lawyers.  With the ball in the CRTC court, there will be no [...]

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Canadian ISP Throttling Conversation Continues in Parliament

April 3, 2008

Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus brought the issue of net neutrality and the throttling of network access front and center recently when suggested that Industry Minister Jim Prentice’s “Hands off approach to hands on interference is bad news for the development of the Canadian innovation agenda.”
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In the video above, he went on to say that [...]

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Bit Torrent on Comcast now full throttle; will Bell Canada concede?

March 27, 2008

From the Globe and Mail article, Comcast to stop hampering file-sharing:
PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Corp., an Internet service provider under investigation for hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers, announced Thursday an about-face in its stance and said it will treat all types of Internet traffic equally.
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Bell Canada Shapes Up Resellers – Part II

March 27, 2008

I had a number of very interesting conversations yesterday with some of Toronto’s independent wholesale ISPs and also with a couple of my Bell friends on the inside. There’s a lot of information coming from both sides about the net neutrality / bandwidth shaping / throttling issue and hopefully I’ll have some time later [...]

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Bell Canada Shapes Up Wholesale ISPs

March 26, 2008

Globe and Mail’s Matt Hartley wrote an article this morning about Bell Canada packet shaping its wholesale ISP’s end customer’s data.
Rocky Gaudrault, the chief executive officer of Teksavvy Solutions Inc., a Chatham based ISP with 21,000 DSL subscribers across Ontario appears to be leading the charge against Bell’s decision to throttle his customer’s Internet connections.
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