Canada and the need for speed – ISPs throttle broadband

While ISPs in other countries satisfy public and business broadband appetite by upgrading infrastructure, Canada throttles. How long can it last?With the explosion of bandwidth-hungry habits such as peer-to-peer file sharing, video streaming and teleworking, experts are warning that Canadian ISPs are reaching the limits of their capacity under the current infrastructure. But while service providers in other countries are investing in new technology to increase capacity, Canadian telcos are trying to curb high-use customers through methods like throttling, or degrading the speed of clients who use peer-to-peer software.To read this Globe and Mail article in full, see www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080618.wgtftth0617/BNStory/Technology/.