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CRTC reviews billing for wholesale Internet services

Postby jon » Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:32 am

CRTC to review billing practices for wholesale Internet services
Canada NewsWire

OTTAWA, Feb. 8 /CNW/ - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today launched, of its own initiative, a proceeding to review its decisions on billing practices that would have applied to the residential customers of Small Internet service providers (Small ISPs).

"The great concern expressed by Canadians over this issue is telling of how much the Internet has become an integral part of their lives," said Konrad von Finckenstein, Q.C., Chairman of the CRTC. "Our approach is based on two fundamental principles:

1. as a general rule, ordinary consumers served by Small ISPs should not have to fund the bandwidth used by the heaviest residential Internet consumers, and

2. it is in the best interest of consumers that Small ISPs, which offer competitive alternatives to the Large Distributors, should continue to do so.

With these principles in mind, we will be reviewing our decisions with fresh eyes and look forward to hearing the views of Canadians."

Following a series of decisions, the CRTC had given Large Distributors the permission to change their billing practices for the residential Internet services provided to wholesale customers (i.e. the Small ISPs). Starting on March 1, 2011, the residential customers of Small ISPs would have been subject to additional charges for going over specific bandwidth caps. The CRTC has suspended the implementation of these decisions pending the outcome of the proceeding launched today.

The CRTC is seeking comments on:

i. How best to implement the following principles with respect to Large Distributors' wholesale services used by Small ISPs:
a) as a general rule, ordinary consumers served by Small ISPs should not have to fund the bandwidth used by the heaviest residential Internet consumers, and
b) it is in the best interests of consumers that Small ISPs, which offer competitive alternatives to the Large Distributors, should continue to do so.

ii. Whether the CRTC should set a minimum threshold level for the sale of bandwidth by Large Distributors to the Small ISPs and, if so, what should it be.

iii. Whether it is appropriate to hold an online consultation as part of its review.

iv. Whether it is appropriate to hold an oral public hearing as part of its review.

Interested parties may submit their comments by April 29, 2011, by filling out the online form https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/instanc ... l&Lang=eng , by writing to the Secretary General, CRTC, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0N2, or by fax, at 819-994-0218.

Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-77

http://pre_web/eng/archive/2011/2011-77.htm
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Re: CRTC to review billing for wholesale Internet services

Postby Mike Cleaver » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:26 pm

These clowns just don't get it.
They swallow all the bullshit given them by Bell, Telus, Rogers, Shaw and Cogeco.
NONE of these "service providers" has given any proof of network congestion or need for throttling or imposing increasingly lower caps on downloads.
All they want to do is crush any competition and keep Canadian internet service the most expensive and limited in the world.
The CRTC is filled with idiots who probably don't even know how to get their own email.
The cost of a gigabyte has been going down for years but the idiots trying to protect their monopolies want to charge one hundred times the actual cost.
As I have said before, the Canadian public paid for the telephone system through taxes when it was owned and built by municipal and provincial governments.
Stupidly, they sold or donated them to Bell and Telus.
Since Bell and Telus control the link from the telephone office or the remote, depending on your situation, they get to call the shots.
For example, my service provider, Teksavvy, has its own link from Toronto to Vancouver but from the downtown CO, their service has to go through Telus lines to the customer and Telus gouges them for the use of "their" wires.
Smaller internet providers cannot afford to wire every home or office building because they and their customers have to pay for it themselves and the phone companies also control most of the "right of ways" for cabling.
The cable companies built their own infrastructure based on investment and customer revenue.
But they all want to charge the maximum rate for minimum service.
The CRTC needs to get rid of the dinosaurs and hire or appoint some people under the age of 40 who understand what the internet means to society, business and education today.
The current incumbents just don't get it.
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Re: CRTC to review billing for wholesale Internet services

Postby jon » Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:03 pm

OTTAWA-GATINEAU, Nov. 10, 2011 /CNW/ - On November 15, 2011, a media lock-up will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to announce the CRTC's decision on wholesale high-speed access services.
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CRTC reviews billing for wholesale Internet services

Postby jon » Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:34 pm

The regulator is suggesting a new, capacity-based approach that would see large companies such as BCE (Bell) sell bandwidth to smaller providers on a monthly basis. The CRTC said this new approach will address issues of dramatically increased bandwidth usage, in an era of online video consumption, while allowing independent Internet service providers (ISPs) to offer competitive rate plans.

More details in the complete Globe and Mail article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tec ... le2237141/
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