Dave should put out a press release with regards to the Fcc
ruling, that would put a little more clarity on the situation with regards to Sandvine.... Found this bit of news yesterday. The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. has been keeping a keen eye on Canada’s own struggles with net neutrality. The debate over net neutrality — a principle that supports equal access to the Internet unfettered by corporate interest — has heated up on both sides of the border in recent months. On Thursday, the FCC ruled that Internet service providers must act in the “public interest” and should be regulated the same as telephone and cable providers. But Canada has always regulated the Internet as a utility, which has made it somewhat easier for the CRTC to step in. “They’re sort of bringing their rules more or less with what we’ve got,” said Ben Klass, a Carleton grad student whose own crusade against service providers charging in full for YouTube or other videos, but discounting their own, led to the CRTC issuing a landmark decision in favour of net neutrality in January. Klass met with FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn in October to discuss the Canada context.