CRTC Rules Rogers Broke Rules by Throttling Gamers

Regulatory body finds that limiting access to World of Warcraft amounts to infringing upon open Internet rules.

The Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Rogers broke the commission's rules by throttling subscribers who were trying to play online games. According to an OpenMedia.ca press release, the Canadian Gamers Organization had filed with a complaint with the regulatory body in which they claimed that Rogers' practice of limiting access to online games, in particular the insanely popular World of Warcraft and Call of Duty: Black Ops, was in contravention of CRTC rules enforcing Internet openness. After much examination, the CRTC sided with the CGO against Rogers, although no punishment has yet been meted out, and the CRTC can't compel Rogers to pay any fines. Regardless, there's a sense of sweet justice over Rogers getting officially called out on just one of their many suspect consumer practices.