Beyond the CRTC’s UBB decision: solving the internet usage metering problem for households

It would be better to have weights and measures branch of government add internet meters to their list of meters to be checked for accuracy.

In a decision announced on Jan. 25, 2011, the CRTC permitted the telecoms and cablecos who own communications networks to apply usage-based billing (UBB) to the contracts they make with independent (re-seller) ISPs. The CRTC, however, did a spectacularly bad job of providing an analytical justif...

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