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The Canadian Network Operators Consortium, which represents dozens of independent ISPs, have written to Industry Minister Tony Clement to ask the government to refer the CRTC's UBB decision back to the Commission for review. The letter notes: Under section 12 of the Telecommunications Act, the Governor in Council can within one year of any CRTC decision on its own motion, by order, vary, rescind the decision or refer it back to the CRTC for reconsideration of all or a portion of it. For these reasons we are asking you to urge your fellow Cabinet members to ask the Governor in Council, of its own motion, to refer the UBB Decisions back to the CRTC for reconsideration in accordance with the pro-competitive principles described above.
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Over the past few weeks, public interest and concern with Internet
bandwidth caps has hit a fever
pitch as new ISP policies (Shaw and Primus announcing
caps) and the CRTC decision
on usage based billing has taken the issue to the mainstream - CBC's
the National covered it, George Stroumboulopoulos discussed
it, CBC's Spark talked
to several players on the issue, the Globe has highlighted
business concerns with bandwidth caps, and there have been numerous op-eds
and media
articles
on the issue.
The Stop the Meter Internet
petition now has over 200,000 signatories and is growing fast,
which may help explain why UBB has emerged as a political
hot potato. The NDP was the first to raise it as a political issue,
followed yesterday by a response from Industry Minister Tony
Clement (who promised to study the decision carefully "to ensure
that competition, innovation, and consumers were all fairly
considered") and the Liberals,
who called on the government to reverse the CRTC decision.
Yet despite the obvious anger over the issue, there remains a
considerable amount of misinformation about what has happened and
uncertainty about just what to do about it. This post attempts to
unpack the issue, by discussing two related but not identical concerns
- the recent CRTC UBB decision and the broader use of bandwidth caps by
virtually all large Canadian ISPs.
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