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CAIP pushes back at Commission on Bell’s traffic shaping

OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) says Bell Canada’s response to the CRTC over the organization’s complaints of traffic shaping, or throttling, “confirms that the association's arguments of wrong-doing by the country's largest phone company… were well-founded,” reads a press release. CAIP's original Part VII Application was filed earlier this month in response to certain traffic shaping measures that Bell Canada is applying to local access and transport services it supplies to competitors on a regulated basis. “Independent competitors interconnect with Bell in order to gain access to their end-user through the ‘final mile’ of access on...