UBB review will stick to residential component only, says CRTC

OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request from the Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc. (CNOC) to merge the retail component of usage-based billing (UBB) with the residential proceeding.In a letter to the Commission earlier this month, CNOC said that if the business wholesale and residential wholesale proceedings are kept separate, parties will have to repeat many of their submissions in both proceedings, “resulting in confusion, unfairness, and inefficiency”.The group also argued that the parties participating in the business wholesale proceeding are at a disadvantage because that proceeding does not include an oral hearing; that separate proceedings will result in...