Did you ever stop to wonder how an apparent 5% of the users who use up an apparent 33% of the available internal network bandwidth didn’t apparently pay enough for their usage to justify Bell upgrading its network?

Did you ever stop to wonder how it came to be that Bell’s internal network congestion problem was so critical it didn’t need to inform wholesalers, instead deciding to throttle them?

Did you ever stop to wonder how LITTLE Bell must be making on the network (both wholesale and Sympatico retail) to justify Bell spokesman Mirko Bibic’s comment that, “Bandwidth just doesn’t fall from the sky”?

I have.

Below are general costs (Re. 1, 2, & 3) of one wholesaler, TekSavvy, neatly compiled and then broken down to reflect what Bell is making both retail and wholesale.

Table 1: TekSavvy GAS (Gateway Access) Deliver Costs. ISPs pay the following to Bell to deliver a DSL connection (NOT internet costs, but internal network costs paid to Bell)
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