Internet Usage-Based Billing Hits Canada
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the CRTC, has passed sweeping new regulations that will force Internet Service Providers to switch to so-called usage-based billingmetered pricing. That means ISPs there will charge customers by the gigabyte for Internet access, and thats on top of a flat service fee. Theres nothing particularly new about metered pricing, but the fact that its being implemented on a country-wide basis surely merits a quick discussion. What do you think of usage-based billing and how it was applied all at once across an entire country? Looks like those that use a ton of bandwidth are going to be pretty upset by this.
“Like our customers, and Canadian internet users everywhere, we are not happy with this new development,” wrote the Ontario-based indie ISP TekSavvy in a recent e-mail message to its subscribers. . .Starting on March 1, Ontario TekSavvy members who subscribed to the 5Mbps plan have a new usage cap of 25GB, “substantially down from the 200GB or unlimited deals TekSavvy was able to offer before the CRTC’s decision to impose usage based billing,”
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