Clement sticks to his talking points on UBB and Globalive at Industry Committee

By Perry Hoffman

OTTAWA - Usage-based billing (UBB) threatens to limit the benefits that innovative and creative businesses such as those involved in cloud computing could bring to the Canadian economy, Industry Minister Tony Clement told a Parliamentary committee Tuesday.Speaking to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology on Tuesday, Clement argued that the CRTC’s UBB decision is not consistent with good public policy and “is quite simply the wrong way to proceed.”“Independent ISPs must not be forced to adopt the same retail pricing strategy as the incumbents. To do so is to limit consumer choice and remove meaningful...