Toronto Sun: CRTC drills BCE on UBB

By Stefania Moretti for Toronto Sun

Regulators drilled BCE Inc. executives with questions Monday ahead of a decision on wholesale usage-based billing (UBB) amid criticism the whole process is a waste of time because it ignores the wider problem of retail data caps.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will decide how large Internet service providers should be allowed to charge smaller, independent providers who lease space on their network for resale.

Last winter, the CRTC gave BCE the green light to charge ISPs according to how much their customers download. Internet consumer group OpenMedia led the backlash with a massive online petition claiming that UBB results in higher Internet bills for everyday Canadians, who already pay some of the highest rates in the world. Read more »

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