Bell, Videotron, can’t exempt their own programming from bandwidth caps, CRTC says

LONDON – In his speech this morning to the London Chamber of Commerce, CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais announced a Commission decision which said Bell and Vidéotron were providing themselves undue preferences by letting customers stream programming without it counting against their bandwidth caps like all other streamed video.“In November 2013, the CRTC received an application – filed by a University of Manitoba graduate student named Ben Klass – complaining about an alleged undue preference on the part of Bell Mobility. A similar application, filed against Vidéotron, followed a few weeks later,” outlined Blais.“The problem in these cases was that Bell...