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Brad Fox testified on Wednesday in front of the CRTC this week that his Sick Kids Couchathon<\/a> was throttled by Bell last November.<\/p>\n

Various news media have picked up the story, including Tech Media<\/a> and CBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why is this the first we have heard about it, more than 7 months after the event? What is the real story?<\/p>\n

Even on his own blog<\/a> and the official event blog<\/a>, immediately following the event, Fox didn’t say anything about throttling or resets.<\/p>\n

In fact, on the Couchathon website, he wrote: <\/p>\n

In the fog of \u201cthe day after\u201d I\u2019m left with nothing but warm feelings, and cool memories <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exhaustion<\/a> and fat fingers on an untested platform could have also come into play. The opening clip<\/a> speaks about technical challenges experienced at the beginning.<\/p>\n

Fox said that he was losing 2-300 people each time the server (uStream.tv) needed to be reset, representing about 5% of the audience – that puts the audience at about 5-6000 people. CBC says<\/a> that the losses occurred between 3 and 4am, which means that people going to sleep could also explain the loss of viewers.<\/p>\n

The telethon generated<\/a> $5500.<\/p>\n

While it is convenient to blame ISP traffic throttling, there are a lot of other potential points of failure, including the originating PC and the serving application<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the Chairman stated on Wednesday in respect of other accusations of misdeeds: <\/p>\n

If you have specific evidence, why don\u2019t you use the provisions of the law? Why don\u2019t you make a complaint under section 27(2) and say, here there is undue preference, there is predatory conduct, rather than here in a policy hearing?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why was this week’s policy hearing the first time<\/a> we have heard of this problem?<\/p>\n

I don’t think we have seen enough evidence on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brad Fox testified on Wednesday in front of the CRTC this week that his Sick Kids Couchathon was throttled by Bell last November. Various news media have picked up the story, including Tech Media and CBC. Why is this the first we have heard about it, more than 7 months after the event? What is …<\/p>\n

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