Bill C-398

SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Telecommunications Act to prohibit telecommunications service providers from engaging in network management practices that favour, degrade or prioritize any content, application or service transmitted over a broadband network based on its source, ownership, destination or type, subject to certain exceptions. This enactment also prohibits telecommunications service providers from preventing a user from attaching any device to their network and requires telecommunications service providers to make information about the user’s access to the Internet available to the user.