Gamers Unhappy About New Throttling Guidelines

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:***

TORONTO, ONTARIO: The CRTC, Canada's telecommunications regulator, has released new guidelines for throttling complaints, which puts the responsibility for monitoring Internet providers' compliance with Internet openness policy directly on the backs of consumers.

If discriminatory throttling is suspected, Canadians are required to go through hours of troubleshooting with both the developer of the application affected and the ISP before a CRTC complaint can be considered, let alone investigated.

The Canadian Gamers Organization (CGO) feel the CRTC must take a more proactive roll to ensure compliance with its own policies that requires less time and frustration on the consumers behalf:

"The CRTC must start enforcing its own policies," says CGO co-founder Jason Koblovsky. “The CRTC needs to put a plan forth to ensure that regular audits are done on Internet Providers rather than relying solely on consumer complaints. We are asking the public to tell the CRTC that enough is enough: the Commission needs to take a much more proactive role in ensuring that Internet providers play by the rules. We are ready to act politically and force a solution here if need be.”

Canadians can stand up for the open Internet at http://openmedia.ca/gamers