Unofficial Video Rebuttal to CRTC 2011-77 (UBB/AVP related)

Or "Billing By The Byte Might Be Illegal"

This is an unofficial video rebuttal to Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-77. It's essentially a practice video to help me prepare for the day that I will find myself in front of the CRTC.

The video does introduce new ways of seeing thing, so please keep an open mind.

Our Web site. http://www.theubbdeception.ca

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• UBB
• Deception
• telecom
• notice
• of
• consultation
• CRTC
• 2011-77
• usage-based
• usage
• based
• Billing
• By
• The
• Byte
• Might
• Be
• Illegal
• aggregated
• volume
• pricing
• AVP

[HiroTheProtagonist]

Although I TOTALLY agree with you, you need to fix up your argument since you are contradicting yourself.

You are saying congestion does not exist, yet you then say that when the network is pushed to it's limits at certain times of the day everyone's internet experience degrades.

[TheUBBDeception]

@HiroTheProtagonist This is where the Commission would have asked for clarifications. :)

Having a degraded network experience isn't the same as congestion. The network will function as fast as its configuration will dictate. There are no physical passages to clog up like you have in your nose. All that happens when a network is run to capacity is that network access requests are lined up, causing delays.

Hence, the degraded network "experience." The network itself is behaving normally.

[HiroTheProtagonist]

@TheUBBDeception ...(continued)....and at that point if the network operator wishes to accommodate more PEAK usage, then they would upgrade their network hardware.

[TheUBBDeception]

@HiroTheProtagonist Which is EXACTLY how networks are SUPPOSE to be managed. It's all about meeting the peak usage in speed, and NOT in volume.

Unfortunately, the commissioners have been flooded with "volumes" of crap data these last two weeks, they don't know what to think anymore.

[HiroTheProtagonist]

@TheUBBDeception ...(continued) ... but that is Bell's own fault for selling more subscriptions than the network can handle. They should have invested in their network to handle the theoretical peak usage instead of pocketing the profits. So they need to stop crying about not having enough money to invest. Because what they really want to do is to continue pocketing that extra money instead of re-investing it in their networks.

[TheUBBDeception]

@HiroTheProtagonist Actually, it's simpler than that. Bell oversold their Internet services, but instead of spending money to fix the problem, someone at Bell figured out how they could postpone the upgrades and make tons of money in the process.

Thus, UBB was born.

Dr. Evil would be proud! :)

[CrewRite]

I hope this vid will turn things around. CRTC needs to listen to all people that pay taxes, not just hogging corps.

[VieuxMalcommode]

@HiroTheProtagonist Absolutely. Selling the same capacity many times over and not adding capacity is exactly the cause of the problem. Like the government telling us the problem with our roads is too many cars while they are happy to collect more and more road taxes (fuels, insurances, plates and other road use surcharges) without actually putting the money we paid where it was supposed to go.

[HiroTheProtagonist]

@TheUBBDeception It makes me think the reason Bell fears losing billing by the byte is that they have been over-subscribing their network. They sold so many subscriptions to their network and promising them a certain bandwidth, that if theoretically everyone were to go ahead and actually make full use of their bandwidth people purchased, it would brink Bell's network to it's knees because it won't be able to handle everyone. 

[HiroTheProtagonist]

@TheUBBDeception Now that is a much better explanation and defines some key concepts. But being devils advocate, bell would probably argue with your definition of congestion.  As in when there are a large number of people using the network at the same time that it is (incorrectly) considered congested.

the key piece that you say is that the network IS behaving normally as per specification from the original design.