Globe: Groups, regulators square off at CRTC hearings

By Iain Marlow for Globe and Mail

The second day of crucial CRTC hearings into the future of Internet pricing in Canada continued on Tuesday in Gatineau, Que., with a lively and at-times adversarial back-and-forth between two groups and the assembled regulators.

The appearances on Tuesday morning by the online advocacy group OpenMedia.ca and the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) continued the debate over exactly how usage-based charges should be implemented to Canada’s smaller, independent Internet service providers, which are allowed through regulation to lease space on the networks of larger providers, such as BCE Inc., to offer competitive Internet services.

Bell had tried to push through changes at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that would have allowed them to charge smaller Internet providers by how much each of their end-user customers downloads. Read more »

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