Here is the latest ruling from Canada's own CRTC (From CBC):
The CRTC has approved Bell Canada's request to bill internet customers, both retail and wholesale, based on how much they download each month.
The plan, known as usage-based billing, will apply to people who buy their internet connection from Bell, or from smaller service providers that rent lines from the company, such as Teksavvy or Acanac.
Under the plan, Bell will charge wholesale ISPs a flat fee for connecting to its network, and for a set monthly usage limit per customer. Beyond that set limit, users will be charged per gigabyte, depending on the speed of their connections.
Customers using the fastest connections of five-megabits per second, for example, will have a monthly allotment of 60 gigabytes, beyond which Bell will charge $1.12 per GB to a maximum of $22.50.
If a customer uses more than 300 GB a month, Bell will also be able to implement an additional charge of 75 cents per gigabyte.
The CRTC is also requiring Bell to make any "usage insurance plans," which give its own retail customers extra monthly usage for a small fee, available to wholesale ISPs.
Small ISPs took the CRTC's approval of Bell's plan as an inevitability, but weren't pleased with some of the details.
"The rates are absolutely atrocious. How the hell are we doing above one dollar for extra usage?" said Rocky Gaudrault, president of Chatham, Ont.-based Teksavvy. "It's in the thousands of multiples beyond what the costs are."
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/05/06/crtc-usage-based-billing-internet.html#socialcomments#ixzz0nT3kWoX7
This means that Bell and all of the small ISP's that use Bell's infrastructure will no longer be allowed to offer unlimited bandwidth, the opposite of what ISPs in other countries are doing, and to make is worse this ruling will kill the smaller ISP.
This website best explains the situation: http://stopusagebasedbilling.wordpress.com/
Sign this petition too if you can: http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/
What is you opinion?
The CRTC has approved Bell Canada's request to bill internet customers, both retail and wholesale, based on how much they download each month.
The plan, known as usage-based billing, will apply to people who buy their internet connection from Bell, or from smaller service providers that rent lines from the company, such as Teksavvy or Acanac.
Under the plan, Bell will charge wholesale ISPs a flat fee for connecting to its network, and for a set monthly usage limit per customer. Beyond that set limit, users will be charged per gigabyte, depending on the speed of their connections.
Customers using the fastest connections of five-megabits per second, for example, will have a monthly allotment of 60 gigabytes, beyond which Bell will charge $1.12 per GB to a maximum of $22.50.
If a customer uses more than 300 GB a month, Bell will also be able to implement an additional charge of 75 cents per gigabyte.
The CRTC is also requiring Bell to make any "usage insurance plans," which give its own retail customers extra monthly usage for a small fee, available to wholesale ISPs.
Small ISPs took the CRTC's approval of Bell's plan as an inevitability, but weren't pleased with some of the details.
"The rates are absolutely atrocious. How the hell are we doing above one dollar for extra usage?" said Rocky Gaudrault, president of Chatham, Ont.-based Teksavvy. "It's in the thousands of multiples beyond what the costs are."
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/05/06/crtc-usage-based-billing-internet.html#socialcomments#ixzz0nT3kWoX7
This means that Bell and all of the small ISP's that use Bell's infrastructure will no longer be allowed to offer unlimited bandwidth, the opposite of what ISPs in other countries are doing, and to make is worse this ruling will kill the smaller ISP.
This website best explains the situation: http://stopusagebasedbilling.wordpress.com/
Sign this petition too if you can: http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/
What is you opinion?
