The Will Rhodes Portmanteau

It is hard to figure out how one company can dictate to another(s) company what they can do when they provide a service.

If you have read this blog for a while you will know that I have had a read problem getting high-speed internet, not for want of trying, but for the ISP not providing what is needed. The whole village we living in is changing very soon - and that will make a little dent in the coffers of our previous provider, but not that much - or as much as we would like.

In Canada the main providers of internet access can throttle internet traffic, not for those who are signed up to them - but those who have no affiliation. And that isn’t the way to do business at all - but it is perfectly legal.

Both Canada Bell and Rogers Internet have been using the practice to control Internet traffic. In the United States, the Comcast Corp has announced it will stop the controversial action after the regulators in the U.S. have become angry.

You have to open up the market to real competition or allow the government to run it - leaving the main companies alone to do as they wish will only cause people to believe that they are doing so to drive customers to them - and not because they offer the best service.

May be the smaller companies should, under Canadian law, sue those big companies so they provide what they are paid for?