Bell Canada’s position is that the Canadian Internet belongs to it, and that it has the right and duty to simply toss out packets based on which protocol they’re running on, in order to maximize profits. This is the opposite of how the Internet works, and it’s a disaster. No one had to get permission from all the worlds’ phone companies in order to invent the Web, or Skype, or BitTorrent. But Bell Canada’s logic is that they should have the ability to reach into the stream of packets and secretly and discriminatorily chuck out packets that it has some prejudice against.
...another update.
27 Mar 2008 at 07:28 am | #
I recently had a conversation with a Bell/Aliant representative (Call-Center slave) about the telemarketers who were calling me (’phone spam). She (Bell/Aliant) claimed there was nothing they could do about any of them, and neither could I.
Since Aliant announced it had been swallowed alive by Bell (owned by USA), their attitude toward my petty customer concerns has dramatically changed from helpful to basically f*** you, on three occasions.
Living where I do out in the nether regions big corporations find so horribly inconvenient to service, I really have no affordable alternatives to what Bell/Aliant
has to offer. You shop at the company store, or do without.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.