GATINEAU – Cartt.ca reporter Perry Hoffman will be in the media lockup this afternoon at 2:30 prior to the CRTC release of its latest decision on wholesale Internet usage-based billing.
Whatever the decision, brace yourselves for waves of misinformation on what the decision means, especially since the decision will likely take time and a lot of number crunching to figure out what it all means. The decision is the result of a re-think of the Commission’s prior wholesale UBB decision, which federal cabinet made many noises about forcing the Regulator to re-visit after enduring a substantial public outcry.
However, in the end, the CRTC decided to take another look just as the federal government seemed ready to force the issue. It fielded over 100,000 comments heading into the July hearing..
At the hearing, Cartt.ca provided extensive daily coverage of the issues and if you read these pieces, you might see some hints as to where the Commission is headed with its decision coming this afternoon (perhaps a version of the aggregated volume pricing model that bills independent ISPs only for the bandwidth the third party customers consume, with some “peak traffic” language built in?)
Our favourite bit of the coverage, however, had to be commissioner Timothy Denton’s poem…
Watch the wires, the Commission web site, or even come back here at about 4:01 for our coverage of the decision.
– Greg O’Brien
