CRTC, The Beast with two heads - Part 2

Okay so I know I was kind of long winded in the last post without actually stating my position, but I wanted to show how someone with 20 years working with the Internet, a strong working knowledge of ISP infrastructure from both the view of a large Corporate entity like Bell and the smaller ISP's... I've worked for both and with all that background it is still very difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Oh and to be clear... as an ex-employee and customer of BCE's many subsidiaries, I am definitely not a fan of the Bell companies.

So here it is, maybe 300,000 people signed an Internet survey... but from the comments I have seen posted online on the many news sites and personal blogs discussing this decision... it is painfully clear that most if not all those who signed are clearly lacking any concrete understanding of what this decision meant. 

What amazes me is the numbers involved here... the Globe and Mail quotes a recent survey that showed 90% of users had no idea they had a bandwidth cap... Something that has been the norm with the large ISP's for years...  So if you didn't know I am guessing that you never busted that cap... and if you never busted that cap then why all of a sudden do you care?  because someone told you, you should?  Because we have a Industry Minister that uses Twitter?  People are citing Netflix as a reason to allow unlimited caps... but what is Netflix doing for our countries infrastructure?  The other thing that I know for fact as I know many fellow geeks that are upset by this... downloading HD movies using peer-to-peer networks is one of the largest uses of bandwidth amongst my fellow geeks... now I won't get into the right or wrong debate about downloading videos... but I don't feel that, it makes for a strong argument to keep unlimited bandwidth caps.

So there you have it... we have a gov't using this debate to help them keep from being forced to call an election,,, and 300,000 people who are poorly informed are being aloud to sway a gov't that is suppose to represent all of it's people not a small minority group. A gov't has now decided that it can and will overturn any decision the CRTC comes to no matter that they may have actually put real time into coming to this decision... that's right I am siding with the Bell companies and the CRTC on this...