The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition the CRTC wants to measure Internet performance at the telcos. The Globe's Christine Dobby writes the regulator said Thursday it will recruit up to 6,200 Canadians to take part in the project, which will be conducted by U.K.-based Internet performance testing firm SamKnows Ltd.
Those who volunteer for the program will receive a device dubbed a "whitebox" that will be connected to their home modem or router and SamKnows will run tests when customers are not actively using their broadband or high-speed Internet connection.
The program is intended to measure download and upload speeds actually delivered to the household. The CRTC will publish a comprehensive report of the findings and while the project is initially set to last for one year, it intends to continue collecting information on broadband speeds beyond that.
In April, the CRTC announced the beginning of a year-long examination of what constitutes a basic acceptable level of telecommunications services. In 2011, the commission set target speeds of five megabits per second for downloading and one Mbps for uploading. Rogers Communications began testing its own system with SamKnows in 2012.
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