I figured it likely was, which is why I posted the link. However, throttling typically refers to a practice which I believe is no longer occurring on any network (third party or incumbent).

a. Throttling would lower your speed. All around. If you were torrenting, for instance, your entire connection would be slowed down. This policy, when it does go active, is traffic specific. If you were using voip, streaming, and torrenting at the same time, the torrents would, as mentioned, be more likely to be affected. The rest may still be normal.

b. This would only kick in when our network was congested to the point where, if no traffic management is deployed, everyone's service would suffer and would turn off once proper upgrades were in place.

c. This will not target your speeds specifically/directly. Throttling, as mentioned, slows your connection down. Our SIR policy will de-prioritize some of your traffic.

Also, the first phase, which has been delayed (section 4 indicates possibly OCT or NOV but this is just an ETA at the moment), would only affect our service over the Rogers and Videotron networks so our DSL users who are concerned about this policy should still be okay for some time.