UBB: Wholesale Internet billing scheme under attack from all sides

By Perry Hoffman

GATINEAU - There was little love for the CRTC when, on the day before St. Valentine’s Day, Videotron filed its appeal of the wholesale Internet billing decision (more popularly known as the usage-based-billing issue). However, the Quebec cableco wasn’t the only provider to let its feelings be known regarding the matter, other network owners as well as the independent ISPs have taken the Commission to task over the appropriate rates for wholesale network access and use. The issue that never seems to go away is not focused on the capacity-based billing framework, which most agree is a good idea, but...