Tag Archives: teksavvy

Plenty of telecom issues but no debate near the election

photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives The CBC has managed to round up most of the telecom issues in one post about the election. Among them are the new fees for incoming SMS messages, throttling of third party DSL ISPs, and the lack of competition on the wireless front. The last good point that they made [...]

Bell’s throttling demonstrated

Earlier today I decided to run an experiment to see whether or not I was throttled. Long story short, I am. I saw on the DSLReports forums that Glasnost was probably not the best way for me to test since it primarily checks for RST packets. That is, it checks for blocking rather than throttling. [...]

CAIP, TekSavvy, Bell and Throttling

photo credit: mrbill CBC just had two pieces on the throttling fiasco that’s still going on. One was an interview with Bell’s Mirko Bibic by Spark, the other was from The Current. The interview with Nora Young of Spark went over general issues of net neutrality, which is why my questions weren’t asked. My questions [...]