Times & Transcript: Fight against usage-based billing continues

From Times & Transcript

Perhaps the greatest change to rental services recently came through Netflix and online streaming of video content. Netflix Canada offers a wide selection of movies at $7.99 a month unlimited. While not all studios have signed on, consumers are largely embracing the method of renting.

But with Internet streaming comes a hidden cost put forth by Internet providers. Usage-based billing caused a frenzy in early-2011 when consumers were being charged for every extra bit of broadband use they went over their usage caps a month.

Petitions from OpenMedia.ca's Stop The Meter campaign led to a battle between federal government and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on the issue. Read more »

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