CRTC sets net neutrality rules for Canada, allows throttling as ...

Courtesy Engadget  Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:40

The FCC may be yet to act on Chairman Genachowski's proposed net neutrality rules , but the agency's Canadian counterpart, the CRTC, has made a fairly significant ruling of its own on the matter today, and it seems like it may have manged to disappoint folks on both sides of the debate in the process.

The short of it is that the CRTC will allow internet service providers to practice "traffic shaping" (a.k.a. bandwidth throttling), but only...

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