Telecom Trends

Last week's posts [here and here] that looked at traffic management on Bell's wholesale DSL services generated a record amount of traffic for this website, a lot of comments - attached to my blog postings, as well as on DSL Reports and Michael Geist's blog - and I found out all sorts of new adjectives to be applied to my CV. When I read the forum on DSL Reports, I was struck by the amount of misunderstanding and misinformation that is being circulated by its contributors.

I note the press release from the NDP's Charlie Angus and Michael Geist's recent reference to a piece from the CEO of Glance Networks.

Let me provide you with a link to a March 25 paper written to address both wireless and conventional net neutrality. It is an interesting read to help maintain some balance.

As certain parties rush to introduce legislation and new regulations to enforce net neutrality, the paper points out:

The Department of Justice concluded in September 2006 that because of significant oversimplifications, “proponents of ‘net neutrality’ regulation do not agree on a definition of what conduct should be prohibited, nor what networks would be regulated, or even the extent to which pieces of the Internet need to be regulated.”

I'm certain that we'll get back to net neutrality before The Canadian Telecom Summit in June. Still, I'll again note that the Summit will host what should be an interesting discussion of the issue at Canada's preeminent gathering of telecom industry stakeholders. Have you booked your place yet?

As Jed Bartlett used to say in The West Wing so often, "What's Next?"

It will be worthwhile to check back here at the end of the day. I plan to provide a summary of the Industry Canada list of the qualified bidders in the AWS spectrum auction. And, I'll have some comments on new bandwidth caps being introduced on some of the unlimited internet plans.

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