Transparency rules should be focused on specific wireless technologies, Bell suggests

By Ahmad Hathout The CRTC should specifically tailor its broadband transparency efforts on certain technologies that have been shown to demonstrate more variation in internet speeds, such as satellite and fixed-wireless services, according to Bell executives. Otherwise, if the CRTC must impose standardized transparency language to make it easier for consumers to choose services, it can force internet service providers to change their “up-to” or “maximum” language to “typical” because that’s what most service providers are already offering on wireline. “We'd be well within … the margins by which what we advertise as a maximum speed would be advertised as...