Save Teksavvy – Freeourbandwidth.com
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I first heard about a third party Internet Service Provider called Teksavvy from my friend Phil, a former collague at Citytv. He swears by the ISP, an alternative to Bell and Rogers, which offers (offered) up unthrottled bandwidth (thx to an OLD deal from Bell) and (I hear) has the best customer service in the country (something that makes those of us who know Bell’s “Emily” jump for joy). Well, the light at the end of Canada’s dark history of traffic shaping (i.e. throttling P2P traffic, including services such as BitTorrent, etc.) is getting even more dim.
A Globe and Mail article announced today that “Bell was restricting the torrent and peer-to-peer traffic of Teksavvy customers. ‘They [Bell] are screwing with our data, which is not their
property,’ said Teksavvy’s CEO. ‘Every single third-party ISP in Canada is going to
be affected by this.’”
The very fact that Joe Public doesn’t understand the terms traffic shaping and bandwidth throttling (and don’t get me started on Net Neutrality) is a sigh of relief to executives at Canada’s big ISPs. When customers aren’t educated, customers have no voice. And let’s face it, mainstream media doesn’t do a great job of digging into this technical jargon.
A Facebook friend just sent me a link that will give you more info and allow you to show your support for Teksavvy and help you understand the state of ISPs in the Great White North.
Incidentally, I wonder just how much money Bell and Rogers make every year? I’m sure I can find those numbers pretty quickly online, which will immediately leave me wondering when these ISPs will start giving customers the services we want and the service we deserve for filling up their deep pockets.
