Archive for February 7th, 2011

No Cap on UBB Reading: Lots of Coverage of Caps and Competition

The current controversy over usage based billing, the CRTC, and Internet data caps has generated a wide range of commentary and articles over the past few days.  These include: Clearing Up the Confusion Over the Caps, a column version of my post on usage based billing and the impact on […]

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February 7, 2011 15 comments News

Solving Canada’s Uncompetitive Internet Will Take More Than CRTC Reversal

Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 6, 2011 as The Real Reason We Pay So Much For Internet Last week, public concern with Internet bandwidth caps hit a fever pitch as hundreds of thousands of Canadians signed petitions against Internet provider practices of “metering” Internet use. The government responded […]

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February 7, 2011 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

Clearing Up the Confusion over the Caps

Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on February 4, 2011 as Clearing up the Confusion over the Caps Caps on Internet service – referred to as usage based billing (UBB) – took the political world by storm this week with over 350,000 Canadians signing a petition calling for an end to […]

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February 7, 2011 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive