National Canadian Broadband Plan

[darkphoenix22]

Net neutrality is not enough.

We demand and are willing to fight (peacefully) for:

1. Complete nationalization of the Canadian broadband infrastructure with 6 months
2. The establishment of a crown corporation to maintain and provide fair access to Canada's broadband network to private ISPs under the
guideline of a open access network
3. A charter for the given crown corporation that guarantees net neutrality and prohibits bandwidth throttling
4. A mission for the given crown corporation to provide 100 Mbit/s fibre to 90% of Canada homes and 10 Mbit/s wireless broadband to the remainder within 5 years
5. A constitutional amendment that will ensure that the means of communication will remains in the hands of the people, prohibiting any future re-privatization of broadband infrastructure

https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Canadian-Broadband-Plan/113931595349292

We are going to be a strictly non-partisan organization, but would
appreciate any traditional avenues of support we can receive.

Thanks,
Ryan Oram
Head of the National Canadian Broadband Initiative

[deanjo]

Net neutrality is not enough.

We demand and are willing to fight (peacefully) for:

1. Complete nationalization of the Canadian broadband infrastructure with 6 months
2. The establishment of a crown corporation to maintain and provide fair access to Canada's broadband network to private ISPs under the
guideline of a open access network
3. A charter for the given crown corporation that guarantees net neutrality and prohibits bandwidth throttling
4. A mission for the given crown corporation to provide 100 Mbit/s fibre to 90% of Canada homes and 10 Mbit/s wireless broadband to the remainder within 5 years
5. A constitutional amendment that will ensure that the means of communication will remains in the hands of the people, prohibiting any future re-privatization of broadband infrastructure

https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Canadian-Broadband-Plan/113931595349292

We are going to be a strictly non-partisan organization, but would
appreciate any traditional avenues of support we can receive.

Thanks,
Ryan Oram
Head of the National Canadian Broadband Initiative

Good luck with that. Thankfully Sasktel here already provides much of what is requested in this proposal. It is a crown corporation already and doesn't do silly things like bandwidth caps. #4 is highly unrealistic however with roughly 30% of Canada's population coming from rural areas let alone offering 100 Mbit connections over the worlds second largest country. The goal of 5 years is pretty lofty as well considering that even our 3 national networks can't even come close to completing even the OTA HD switch over in time.

[deanjo]

I might point out to you that your mandate here is very similar to another national crown corporation, the CBC, and we all see how well that is working out.

[darkphoenix22]

The fact that it will be in the hands of a democratic government (though at arms length) puts us in a very unique position, namely we can tell them what to do through elections. No regulation BS, just make a law and it will be done. In order to do this, we need to become the masters of our own house, which would be impossible in a fully privatized telecom industry. It is imperative that the people have control over the means of communication.

In light of the above, I feel that we must amend the constitution to keep the infrastructure in the hands of an arms length organization and mandate by law (through a charter) that said organization guarantees net neutrality and prohibits content filtering and bandwidth throttling. We then must amend the constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms to directly reflect said law.

Net neutrality and freedom of communication cannot be just a regulation, they must become enshrined rights. They must become part of the constitution rather than being just a law. Our Internet needs to be protected from the interests of gouging private companies and bought-and-paid-for politicians.

[darkphoenix22]

The net neutrality movement is now the broadband nationalization movement.

I converted everyone at the protest in Toronto and we have the full support of the NDP and Pirate Party (and the Green Party only is a matter of time, just haven't heard back from them).

Time to start postering: http://www.multiupload.com/NMQVJSQUZK

[bridgman]

Is net neutrality still a big issue ? My impression was that most of the ISPs switched from bandwidth throttling to charging for data transfer, ie going from "restricting transfers to fit the available capacity" to "charging more for big transfers to (theoretically) pay for rasising the capacity to fit the demands".

[deanjo]

Is net neutrality still a big issue ? My impression was that most of the ISPs switched from bandwidth throttling to charging for data transfer, ie going from "restricting transfers to fit the available capacity" to "charging more for big transfers to (theoretically) pay for rasising the capacity to fit the demands".

Well let's put it this way, renting a movie from Bell's video center (as a bell customer) doesn't count against your bandwidth, Netflix does.

[darkphoenix22]

L'affiche en fran?ais: http://www.multiupload.com/3OOPT274OV

[darkphoenix22]

I have received a personal message of support from Vint Cerf.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/vint-cerf-speaks-out-on-net-neutrality.html

[darkphoenix22]

Vive la r?volution des communications!

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