Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Usage Based Billing is Dead in Canada

It was in January of 2011 that I first ranted on this blog about Usage-Based-Billing or UBB. In the months since the CRTC approved UBB there has been a public outcry against the practice. The following report from Global News sums up the situation:




Living in Victoria on the WestCoast, I have been very fortunate not to have to contend with some of the unreasonable data transfer caps that folks east of Alberta had to deal with, however, as a moderately heavy Internet user myself I can really appreciate the pain that my fellow Canadians suffered through.

So the saga continues into February of 2012 when Canadian Internet users can hopefully put all of this behind them.