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I’ve written before about Rogers and Bell playing their lying-arse, smarmy, two-faced, greed bastardly bleats and pronouncements of how they have to throttle bandwidth of users in order to better manage the internet. I got so fed up with Rogers interference in my network usage I shit-canned my account with them and signed on with TekSavvy.

TekSavvy, which wholesales bandwidth from Bell and provides far better service, is now subject to the same throttling practices Bell uses to give their own customers incredibly expensive and uber-crappy internet access.

Of course, Bell is reserving the right to decide what gets throttled which, coincidentally, doesn’t include their own priority products and services and recent forays into IPTV. This has been a bone of contention among the re-sellers of access and has made Rocky Gaudrault, CEO of TekSavvy, a major hero in the dispute with his efforts to get the CRTC onside and finally come up with rules, regulations, controls, policies or something that will tell the fat-headed lard-arse fucktards of Bell and Rogers that the internet is not owned by them and they should bloody well be prepared to open the doors for equal access under law and allow for a true state of Network Neutrality to be established in Canada.

It’s said best in an email Gaudrault sent out to TekSavvy customers yesterday and which I am posting here for you:

Dear Customers,

In March 2008 Bell started throttling its Wholesale Customers (TekSavvy among a group of many) without notice. We attempted to have the CRTC force Bell to stop as it removed our ability to do business and give Market choice. The throttling was done in the name of congestion, even if Bell, at the same time launched higher speeds (which they did not share with their wholesalers) and also dabbled with launching IPTV, which consumes even more capacity.

The CRTC sided with Bell in November 2008 but launched a Public Hearing to discuss Network Management Practices, clearly showing they made a decision on throttling without having all the details in hand to do so. As a result we launched a request to reverse their decision from November (The Review & Vary) in May 2009.

The only way we are going to make a difference at this point is to get full public support to stop companies like Bell from bullying the market and the regulators! The Telecom and Cableco Monopolies control 96% of our marketplace, so if we don’t stand up and voice our concerns, this will become a two party dance where choices and services are going to be completely removed and rates raised to unreasonable levels!

Here are the details on how to submit your comments:

1) Go to:
http://support.crtc.gc.ca/crtcsubmissionmu/forms/Telecom.aspx?lang=e

2) Select “Part VII / PN “ from the drop down list and then click “Next”

3) In box entitled “Subject” line, insert “CRTC File #:
8662-P8-200907727″

4) In the box entitled “Description / Comments / Questions”, insert any comments that you may have on the review and vary application.

5) If you would like to attach a document, select “yes” and follow the instructions for attaching a file.

As indicated in the Title, I believe the deadline is June 22nd, so don’t wait to long

PS – R&V details here: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/recherche-search/?q=8662-P8-200907727&n=e&m=

Regards,

Rocky

Rocky Gaudrault
Chief Executive Officer
TekSavvy Solutions Inc.

Even if you’re not a customer of TekSavvy – or any of the other smaller, more effective, companies getting cornholed by Bell – you must step up to the plate and let the CRTC know how you feel about this very important issue. Network Neutrality equals Free Speech. Your ability to see, hear, sense, & speak to and about the world is in danger of being held under the control of a bunch of small minded cretins who only care about their bottom line and the twisted MBA ethics that guide them on that crumbling path which leads us all away from the future.

Fuck Bell. Talk to the CRTC. Make that body relevant again. Use it.

Tom Perlmutter, head of the NFB, brilliant man and possibly the world’s nicest guy evar, stated recently in Banff (and I’m paraphrasing here) that we need to regard the advent of the internet as being akin to the industrial revolution; the changes to business, politics and culture are that far reaching and that profound; and we need to address this with a national strategy and not just leave it up to the marketplace – cuz we all know how well that shit shakes down, don’t we?

You want to live in a free world? Speak up.

Cheers.

P. S. Thanks to Ted for the Perlmutter reference.