Rogers Ordered to Stop Throttling WoW and Other Games

The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission issued an order yesterday to Rogers Communications giving the internet provider until September 27 to formulate a plan to cease throttling online games such as World of Warcraft, reports the Calgary Herald. Noting that Rogers own traffic management policy states that "online games, such as World of Warcraft, should not be throttled or slowed down, and would only be affected if Rogers misclassifies the games and other peer-to-peer applications were running at the same time." For its part, Rogers states it has corrected the issue with World of Warcraft and is "not aware of any problems with any other online games." Thanks Ant via Slashdot.
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Canada has to be one of the most pathetic countries in the world for not allowing competition, yet it always likes to tout itself as so very cutting edge and advanced.

I'm not sure if this is true for the western portion of Canada but here on the eastern coast has a lot of competition as well as providing high speed internet to very, very remote areas throughout Nova Scotia.

I lived in a village of about 150 people, 45 minutes from the nearest 'town' and we still had access to high speed internet while Rogers was no where on the map and this is the same for many other outlying communities across the provinces.

If I were to pick up high speed internet right now as a new customer in Halifax, I would have the choice of at least three options with fairly competitive pricing and without a cap issue (for me).
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