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File Number: 8646-C12-200815400

 

Ottawa, 11 February 2009

 

By electronic mail

 

To:   Interested Parties List - Public Notice 2008-19

 

Re: Review of the Internet traffic management practices of Internet service providers

 

This letter serves to release information submitted to the Commission in confidence with respect to requests for disclosure as per the letter dated 4 February 2009 for the above-noted proceeding.

Commission staff issued a letter dated 4 February 2009, addressed to interested parties of PN 2008-19, requesting disclosure of information filed under a claim of confidence in the above-noted proceeding. In that letter, certain parties were, among other things, requested to file information which the Commission would then disclose on the public record in a manner that protects the identity of the party to whom the information relates.

On 9 February 2009, responses to these requests were received from Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership (Bell Aliant) and Bell Canada, Bragg Communications Inc. (Bragg), Cogeco Cable Inc. (Cogeco), MTS Allstream Inc. (MTS Allstream), Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. (Primus), Quebecor Media Inc. on behalf of Videotron Ltd. (QMI), Rogers Communications Inc. (Rogers), Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel), Shaw Communications Inc. (Shaw), and TELUS Communications Company (TCC).

As contemplated by Commission staff's letter dated 4 February 2009, to the extent that it can be disclosed without revealing the identity of the party to whom it relates, the information filed by parties pursuant to the process referred to above is set out for the public record in the attachment to this letter.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

(Original signed by)

 

Chris Seidl
Director, Convergence Policy

 

c.c.: Stephan Meyer, CRTC 819­997­4494

 

Attachment

Please note:   The companies did not necessarily use the same time periods, or the same methodology, for calculating the information contained in the tables provided below.

_________(CRTC) 04Dec2008-1 (a)

 

 

Annual % growth of total traffic volume

Years

2005-2006

2006-2007

2007-2008

Company A

59

33

28

Company B

56

45

27

Company C

54

46

47

Company D

66

57

21

Company E

28

32

45

Company F

56

49

28

Company G

52

43

35

 

______________(CRTC) 04Dec2008-1 (b)

 

 

Period

% HTTP/

Streaming Traffic

% P2P Traffic

% UDP Traffic

% Other Traffic

Company A

First Month

29

45

4

22

Middle Month

29

46

4

21

Last Month

31

47

4

17

Company B

First Month

50

34

4

11

Middle Month

54

31

4

11

Last Month

59

32

5

4

Company C

First Month

39

28

-

34

Middle Month

46

21

-

33

Last Month

48

23

3

25

Company D

First Month

28

34

-

37

Middle Month

29

51

-

19

Last Month

32

43

-

25

 

______________(CRTC) 04Dec2008-2 (a)

 

 

Annual % growth of the monthly average usage per end-user

Years

2005-2006

2006-2007

2007-2008

Company A

16

47

13

Company B

40

14

9

Company C

-6

35

31

Company D

23

18

10

 

______________(CRTC) 04Dec2008-2 (b)

 

 

Annual % growth of the monthly average usage for the top 5% end-users

Annual % growth of the monthly average usage for the top 10% end-users

Years

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

Company A

28

7

-4

31

10

-1

Company B

10

-1

2

-3

11

1

Company C

2

30

-7

5

34

-2

Company D

-13

24

25

-11

26

25

 

______________(CRTC) 04Dec2008-2 (c)

 

 

Period

Percentage of total traffic attributable to the top 5% end-users

Percentage of total traffic attributable to the top 10% end-users

Company A

First Month

51

68

Middle Month

50

67

Last Month

45

61

Company B

First Month

37

71

Middle Month

42

64

Last Month

52

78

Company C

First Month

42

56

Middle Month

41

56

Last Month

34

53

Company D

First Month

44

60

Middle Month

44

60

Last Month

37

52

Company E

First Month

54

72

Middle Month

50

68

Last Month

45

62

Company F

First Month

56

72

Middle Month

47

63

Last Month

37

53

Company G

First Month

45

53

Middle Month

43

60

Last Month

41

59

Company H

First Month

60

73

Middle Month

63

76

Last Month

56

74

Company I

First Month

53

73

Middle Month

54

73

Last Month

54

68

Company J

First Month

49

65

Middle Month

48

64

Last Month

42

57

 

______________(CRTC) 04Dec2008-2 (d)

 

Top   5% End-Users

 

Period

% HTTP/

Streaming Traffic

% P2P Traffic

% UDP Traffic

% Other Traffic

Company A

First Month

18

66

-

16

Middle Month

16

64

-

19

Last Month

18

58

-

24

Company B

First Month

31

52

4

13

Middle Month

33

48

6

13

Last Month

34

56

6

4

Company C

First Month

14

57

4

25

Middle Month

15

58

4

23

Last Month

16

58

5

19

 

Top 10% End-Users

 

Period

% HTTP/

Streaming Traffic

% P2P Traffic

% UDP Traffic

% Other Traffic

Company A

First Month

37

46

4

12

Middle Month

40

43

5

12

Last Month

41

49

6

4

Company B

First Month

17

56

4

24

Middle Month

17

57

4

22

Last Month

19

58

5

18

Company C

First Month

20

62

-

18

Middle Month

20

61

-

19

Last Month

21

54

-

26

 

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