Prescriptive rules on broadband labels unnecessary, potentially harmful: ISPs

PIAC, Competition Bureau, CCTS push label as important opportunity By Ahmad Hathout The CRTC must take a light-touch regulatory approach when it comes to determining how internet service providers (ISPs) present certain technical plan details, as being too prescriptive risks providing unnecessary information while adding implementation costs, according to several large service providers. The gist of the ISP argument – both large and regional – can be distilled to some form of the following: they already provide the necessary information they believe an already-informed public should know, and the one example of a mandated “broadband label” – that is the...