CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s internet remains flat, despite challenges
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CANADA REMAINS a world-leader in keeping our internet equal for all. Challenges to tilt the internet in favour of special interests come from at home and abroad. Last month, Canada’s telecomm regulator ruled that all online data be treated equally.
The ruling comes after Videotron, a music streaming company, offered their wireless service to subscribers at no charge for data used.
This practice, called “zero-rating,” is violation of net neutrality because content would be biased in favour of their service. Subscribers to other music streaming services would pay more. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled the practice illegal.
David Charbonneau is a retired TRU electronics instructor who hosts a blog at http://www.eyeviewkamloops.wordpress.com.
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And yet, the big players ( Bell comes to mind as they are the loudest ) in Canada are screaming blue murder over those rules. They see what is happening in the fudged up system in the US of A, and they want it. They already gouge us with high rates , low data caps, and that’s not good enough for them, they want it all.
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