Google has submitted a 15 page protest document to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission weighing in on the throttling practices of Bell and other Internet Service Providers. "From consumer, competition and innovation perspectives, throttling applications that consumers choose is inconsistent with a content and application-neutral internet, and a violation of Canadian telecommunications law, which forbids unfair discrimination and undue or unreasonable preferences and requires that regulation be technologically and competitively neutral." Google officials wrote in the document made public over the weekend by the CRTC. "The internet is simply too important to allow them to act as such a gatekeeper," the company said. "Protecting end user choice is the central issue in this proceeding, but also a much larger issue. It goes to the heart of the internet and how it acts as an extraordinary platform for innovation and fair competition."
Go Google! Thanks for looking out for your Canadian users! Now can you assert your influence on Rogers so that we can get a decent iPhone subscription plan?
CBC story here.
Go Google! Thanks for looking out for your Canadian users! Now can you assert your influence on Rogers so that we can get a decent iPhone subscription plan?
CBC story here.
