OTTAWA – In the face of enormous political and public pressure, Bell Canada has killed wholesale usage-based billing.Knowing politicians (whomever wins the election) are determined to stop wholesale UBB in its tracks, in its submission to the CRTC late Monday evening on the newest proceeding into the issue, Bell Canada abandoned any plan to continue pushing for UBB in its previously Commission-approved-form.Instead, Bell has proposed a new idea (well, borrowed, really from CRTC Commissioner Candace Molnar and industry consultant Mark Goldberg) it is calling aggregated volume pricing.“We are basically riffing off of the sentiments expressed by several of the small...
