Tag: CRTC
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Canadian Government Potentially Reverses Usage Based Billing
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Earlier this week I wrote about the Canadian Governments approval of a CRTC rule implementation that allowed Canadian ISPs to impliment usage based billing. Now in a thankful turn of events, the government is rolling it back, and hopefully ending usage based billing. Looks like the future of the internet in Canada may be bright…
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Metered Internet? Hopefully Never in the USA.
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Recently, Canada’s Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the usage of metered, or “usage-based” internet. This effectively allows carriers to put a cap on how much bandwidth users may use, and charge basically however much they want for bandwidth after an allotted amount. In terms of the future of the internet as an open channel for…