Sister Sage's Musings » Bell http://sistersagesmusings.ca Center-left blog from Canadians across the country and beyond Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 CRTC succumbs to Bell: ISPs and customers to pay by byte http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2010/11/03/crtc-succumbs-to-bell-isps-and-customers-to-pay-by-byte/ http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2010/11/03/crtc-succumbs-to-bell-isps-and-customers-to-pay-by-byte/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:46:26 +0000 Jymn http://sistersagesmusings.ca/?p=4840 This is not good for ISP’s, customers and especially downloaders.

Today the CRTC pushed telecom policy one step in the wrong direction for independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and one giant misguided leap in the wrong direction for Canadians. The problem? Usage-based billing (UBB).

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