Category Archives: Mobiles
Traffic Management on Mobile Gets Regulated
Shortly before Canada Day the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released their decision as to whether they were to modify the forbearance framework for mobile wireless data services. To date, the CRTC has used a light hand when it’s come to wireless data communications: they’ve generally left wireless providers alone so that the providers could expand their networks in the (supposedly) competitive wireless marketplace. As of decision 2010-445 the Commission’s power and duties are extended and the spectre of traffic management on mobile networks is re-raised. Continue reading
Deep Packet Inspection and Mobile Discrimination
If last year was the year of wireline network management/neutrality in Canada, we might get lucky and see this one as the transition year that leads to a public discussion about Canadian telecommunications companies’ wireless network management/neutrality practices, with discrimination as the focal topic. Continue reading
Some Data on the Skype iPhone Application
How much data per second does the Skype iPhone application consume? I answer this, and think of how the application might impact Canadian customers. Continue reading
