So many providers have brought light and publicity to P2P File sharing and they are investing large lump sums of money trying to fight it but is it really that big of an issue? I really wonder, after a statement made by Qwest CTO to News Editor Phil Harvey over at Light Reading

Qwest CTO Pieter Poll says it may not even be causing as much traffic as many think. “I’m not convinced that it causes network congestion at this point, but clearly it has the potential to do that,” he says.
Poll says he’s looked at Qwest’s peering points for some idea of how much P2P traffic is on its networks. And, while he admits that it’s not an exact measurement of the P2P traffic load, he says the fears of network congestion are a little overblown.

I know with the amount of users that currently traverse our network we do not have an issue with P2P traffic.

We have been talking about this in our office for sometime and having debates on if this could affect the sales of VOIP services until all this is flushed out. Well it seems as if those wars has begun SBC’s now AT&T’s CEO was the first to make such a public statement. Well it seems North of the border the Canadians has decided to act on it.

MISSISSAUGA, ON, March 7 /CNW/ – Vonage Canada today stepped up its efforts to ensure fair and competitive telephone service for Canadians, by disclosing its request to the Canadian Radio-Television & Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to investigate Shaw Communications’ “thinly veiled VoIP tax” to determine if Shaw is unfairly driving up competitor’s prices and forcing Western Canadians to pay more for phone service. Shaw recommends to its high-speed Internet customers that they pay an additional $10 charge if they use a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service provider such as Vonage Canada. Shaw claims its “quality of service enhancement” fee, which it does not charge to its own Internet phone customers, is necessary to ensure independent VoIP service is not disrupted or degraded.

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In the United States, CNBC also reported that RIM and NTP reached a settlement and said it was worth $612.5 million.

The settlement would avoid an injunction that would have shut its U.S. BlackBerry service.

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