OTTAWA – MTS Allstream, along with independent ISP Acanac, this week filed a motion with the Federal Court of Appeal seeking leave to appeal, and eventually to overturn, CRTC Telecom Order 2009-484.The order, entitled “Bell Aliant Regional Communications and Bell Canada – Applications to introduce usage-based billing and other changes to Gateway Access Services,” approved a new charge, usage-based billing, that would be applied to each customer of third party ISPs who lease lines from the incumbents in order to provide Internet service.The new charge would be applied to any customer whose data usage exceeded a set limit, up to...
