Monday, June 23, 2008
Broadband for all
Michael Geist's column in the Toronto Star this week joins our call for the government to examine a national connectedness strategy as a way to use the windfall from the spectrum auction, as bidding approaches the $4B mark.He suggests three uses, among them:
Third, a large chunk of the surplus could be allocated toward fulfilling the goal of ensuring that all Canadians enjoy access to high-speed networks. Canada's broadband global ranking has been steadily declining in recent years with one-third of Canadian communities still without high-speed access. For those Canadians without access – whether in rural areas, or on the outskirts of major cities – the Internet's potential for communication, commerce, access to knowledge and culture remains largely unrealized.
As Michael Sone and I suggested in our 
opening remarks at The 2008 Canadian Telecom Summit, the digital divide is not just a matter of connecting communities, but helping lower income Canadians get on-line, regardless of where they live.As I asked in the opening remarks, will broadband policy find a place on the election platforms of various political parties this fall?
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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 6/23/2008 12:42:00 PM 
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Let's start with getting back to real, actual "broadband" and "high speed" internet for those who bought it and are paying through the nose for it but aren't getting it because the big ISPs are throttling it.
We are back to dial up days, but its 2008.
We are back to dial up days, but its 2008.
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: 7:27 PM, June 23, 2008
: 7:27 PM, June 23, 2008
Sorry anonymous commenter - that statement isn't true and I suspect you know it.
Let's not fall into the classic propaganda trap of repeating a falsehood often enough that people start to believe it's true.
Throttled internet access is still WAY faster than dial-up and the only traffic being throttled is non-real time sensitive torrents. The source of the false impression was CAIP's typographical error that confused 30 kBps (240 kbps - the rate that torrent traffic is bounded) with 30 kbps - which would have been slower than dial-up. It was an error and we should move on.
Real time sensitive applications, such as video and music streaming, web browsing, VoIP, etc. are still running at 'posted speeds' as the traffic reporters would say.
Let's not fall into the classic propaganda trap of repeating a falsehood often enough that people start to believe it's true.
Throttled internet access is still WAY faster than dial-up and the only traffic being throttled is non-real time sensitive torrents. The source of the false impression was CAIP's typographical error that confused 30 kBps (240 kbps - the rate that torrent traffic is bounded) with 30 kbps - which would have been slower than dial-up. It was an error and we should move on.
Real time sensitive applications, such as video and music streaming, web browsing, VoIP, etc. are still running at 'posted speeds' as the traffic reporters would say.
Posted by 
Mark Goldberg : 8:12 PM, June 23, 2008
Mark Goldberg : 8:12 PM, June 23, 2008
Mark:
Check out legit by any measure downloads at www.download.com and tell me your buddies - probably your clients - are not throttling dolphins too...
They are killing the internet bit by bit or byte by byte - it doesn't really matter - and the internet will figure out a way around it sooner or later...
And maybe too the CRTC...
The big ISPs are throttling traffic they don't like and that's not only repulsive - it's illegal...
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Check out legit by any measure downloads at www.download.com and tell me your buddies - probably your clients - are not throttling dolphins too...
They are killing the internet bit by bit or byte by byte - it doesn't really matter - and the internet will figure out a way around it sooner or later...
And maybe too the CRTC...
The big ISPs are throttling traffic they don't like and that's not only repulsive - it's illegal...
Posted by : 10:01 PM, June 23, 2008
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