After pressure from the CRTC, Rogers Communications has promised to end throttling the internet connections for all its customers by the end of 2012. Bell Canada on the other hand said it would end this practice by next month. Rogers has been using throttling to keep the connection speeds and reliability strong, by slowing down the connections of users who play online video games or who use P2P sharing services. A Rogers representative said that "new technologies and ongoing investments in network capacity will allow us to begin phasing out that policy starting in March 2012." In 2009 the CRTC adopted new rules that would allow internet service providers to moniter and control traffic as long as the customers where informed. Unfortunately, there was no way to moniter the situation and the power was abused. The Canadian Gamers' association conducting studies and found that Rogers was severely limiting the connections of World of Warcraft players, findings that were backed up by the CRTC. This resulted in the CRTC mandating that access to online services could not be restricted.
I believe that restricting internet speeds to those who use a lot of bandwidth and create a lot of traffic should be restricted. The restriction speeds up the connection to those who are not gaming online or downloading large files. On the other hand, the restriction can seem unfair to some. This can also be detrimental to games like World of Warcraft because people will stop playing because their connections are too slow.
http://www.moneyville.ca/blog/post/1126122--rogers-follows-bell-in-ending-internet-throttling?bn=1
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