Ars Technica reports on the recent filing by Wireless Nomad to the CRTC calling for it to force Bell from using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to throttle P2P traffic.

Bell has been using such traffic shaping techniques on its own network since last year, but in March 2008, it expanded its filtering to encompass resellers of its Internet service—even when those resellers explicitly offered neutral connections to subscribers.

The tactic has infuriated the community of small ISPs in Canada, most of which depend upon line-sharing provisions to stay in business. Bell’s action has removed one of the key ways in which the ISPs can differentiate themselves from Bell’s own service (price is the other big one). When news of the move leaked out, the Canadian Association of Internet Providers filed a complaint with the CRTC, Canada’s telecoms regulator, asking that Bell be forced to remove the filters from its wholesale service.

The CRTC has agreed that “an expedited process is appropriate” for handling the request, and final comments on the matter are due in the next few days; a preliminary decision should be forthcoming soon. Between this decision and the pending FCC decision in the Comcast case, North America should get a good deal more clarity this year about what constitutes reasonable network management.

Bell says it has no choice but to throttle P2P traffic in order to provide better service for all its cutomers, however, as also pointed out in this same Ars Technica article, Om Malik reports that only 20 percent of Internet traffic is from P2P apps. A full 70 percent of traffic during peak periods comes from HTTP, with a huge chunk of that coming from HTTP streaming sites like YouTube.

So is Bell going to start throttling YouTube as well? Or will the CBC have to put their programming on YouTube instead of offering it to Canadians online via BitTorrent? It’s a ridiculous assumption and Bell’s motives are so pathetic and obvious: they don’t have the bandwidth they’re advertising for sale; they have fallen waaay behind on upgrading their infrastructure (unlike other countries around the world who get it); and they are more interested in wringing money out of their antiquated systems than in providing any real innovation or true service to the consumers citizens.

The CRTC needs to fulfill its role as advocate for the citizens of this country and bitch slap these greedy motherfuckers into doing the job they have been lying about and overcharging for throughout this past decade. Force them to behave - because like a greedy bratty kid who lies kicking and screaming in the middle of the grocery store aisle, wailing in a puddle of their own obstinate piss, they will not listen, they will not learn nor will they ever do anything for the benefit of anyone else until they are forced to do so.

Fuckin’ chimps.

Cheers.