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The company behind some of Canada’s most popular websites has waded deep into the network neutrality waters, demanding that regulators not only adopt network neutrality, but extend it to wireless networks. “If the traffic management practices employed by wireless carriers with regard to matters such as Internet access and influencing content were utilized by wireline ISPs,” says Pelmorex Media, “the public would be outraged.”
Pelmorex operates The Weather Network and MétéoMédia, two of the country’s “speciality television services.” More importantly for Internet users, each channel operates a website, and the sites are “two of the most viewed mobile services available in this country.” But wireless carriers haven’t even been subtle in their attempts to control (and profit from) the sites, according to the company.
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