[186342] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Binge On! - And So This is Net Neutrality?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Dec 10 20:59:37 2015
X-Original-To: Nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <566A2BB8.2050806@vaxination.ca>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:58:22 -0800
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Cc: "Nanog@nanog.org" <Nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 17:49 , Jean-Francois Mezei =
<jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
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> On 2015-12-10 13:07, William Kenny wrote:
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>> "Verizon is reportedly set to begin testing a sponsored data program =
that
>> would let companies pay Verizon to deliver online services without =
using up
>> customers' data plans.=20
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> In Canada, the Telecom Act 27(2) states:
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> Unjust discrimination
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> (2) No Canadian carrier shall, in relation to the provision of a
> telecommunications service or the charging of a rate for it, unjustly
> discriminate or give an undue or unreasonable preference toward any
> person, including itself, or subject any person to an undue or
> unreasonable disadvantage.
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> So if this Verizon scheme were to happen in Canada, one could =
challenge
> this if the rates charged to Netflix for 1GB of data are different =
from
> the rates charged to anyone else, including residential customers as
> this would be an undue preference.
What if the rate charged is the same?
Wouldn=E2=80=99t it still be problematic if:
I pay VZ $15/Gigabyte for all data I use except Netflix which gets =
billed
automatically to Netflix instead of me?
> Bell Canada's wireless service lost such a challenge earlier this year
> because it ended up giving 10 hours of its own TV service for $4.00
> while the same 10 hours on competing services would end up costing
> something like $40 in normal usage charges. (Bell Canada is current =
at
> Federal Court seeking the CRTC's decision be invalidated, stating its =
TV
> service is "broadcasting" and not subject to the Telecommunications =
Act
> despite being delivered over a telecommunications service using IP
> technology.
Telephone companies=E2=80=A6 Any belief that they are communications =
companies
is purely coincidental to their business model. In fact, they are law =
firms.
Owen
