Bell Proposing Usage Based Billing
Idiomatick writes “Bell Canada is attempting to impose UBB on it’s wholesale customers. As Bell was given a last-mile monopoly in much of Canada by the government they are required to follow rules set up by the CRTC this includes leasing their lines to competitive ISPs. And they are given a directive by the CRTC to provide competitive speeds to said ISPs. Teksavvy has informed it’s customers that were this to go through the current monthly cap would be quartered and the cost for exceeding it would be “multiple times more than our current per Gigabyte rate of {content}.25/GB on overages”. They have also helpfully included a link where you can send your comments/concerns to the CRTC directly.”
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