Bell Canada can continue to slow down certain types of Internet traffic flowing on the wholesale networks it provides to smaller Canadian Internet service providers after federal regulators denied a request for interim relief from the Canadian Association of Internet Providers, reported the Globe and Mail. The association had filed a complaint calling on the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission to issue a stop order against the telecom giant, alleging that Bell’s “traffic shaping” policies are illegal.

A previous J-Source post is here, with links to background stories about “bandwidth hogs” and “traffic shaping.”

The CRTC press release is here.

The Globe and Mail story is here.