Michael Geist - Bell Secretly Throttling Wholesale Internet Services? - UPDATED

[Walter Dnes]

  I'm not a P2P user, but this is the thin edge of the wedge. At
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080325.wgtinternet26/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080325.wgtinternet26

> Bell Canada spokesman Jason Laszlo said the company has every right
> to limit the amount of bandwidth certain applications can consume
> on its networks and those it rents to third-party ISPs.

  Bell has a partnership deal with Microsoft.  As a matter of fact,
http://sympatico.ca redirects to http://sympatico.msn.ca/

  Put on your tinfoil for a moment.  MS has enough money to make it
worth while for Bell to selectively restrict Firefox, whilst letting IE
go whole hog.

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