Friday, January 21, 2011

Georgia Straight | NDP slams CRTC's approval of usage-based billing for Internet service

Georgia Straight | NDP slams CRTC's approval of usage-based billing for Internet service: "

By Stephen Hui for the Georgia Straight


The NDP’s digital-issues critic says a decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to allow usage-based billing threatens access to the Internet.


According to Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus, usage-based billing is unfair to consumers and could be used by large Internet service providers to limit competition from third-party ISPs and online media sources, such as Netflix.


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