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Comment Finally (Score 1) 364

One of the many poor CRTC decisions is questioned at the highest level. We can only hope this plants the seed in the people's mind that the CRTC is nothing more than a puppet agency controlled by the Big Three telecom companies (Rogers, Telus, BCE.)

Comment Re:Meh. Allocate 240.0.0.0/4. (Score 1) 460

And have to push new TCP/IP stacks for most operating systems to get them to understand that that is now viable space. This would be effort better spent on just going IPv6.

At this juncture, one might as well just go IPv6. Also keep in mind that a lot of OS's are IPv6 ready as is (of course the remaining 90% would still need implementation.) Plus with the network configuration changes that possibly have to be made to utilize Class E, again, might as well just go IPv6.

Comment Consumer Protection (Score 2, Insightful) 281

Consumer protection is virtually non-existent in Canada. The CRTC is a spineless puppet entity, solely to serve big business. Cable providers are mutually exclusive across Canada as far as I know, meaning only one exists per territory. Bandwidth caps, as you can see, are draconian, UBB (usage-based billing) is ridiculous. The list goes on and on...

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