Canada: Regulators approves usage-based internet billing

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Source: CBC News

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.

The regulator attached a key caveat to the approval, however, in that Bell must apply usage-based billing to all of its retail customers before it can implement the scheme with its wholesale internet service providers.

Bell will therefore need to move any customers it has on unlimited downloading services onto new usage-based plans before it can apply the same scheme on a wholesale basis.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/05/06/crtc-usage-based-billing-internet.html