Friday, March 27, 2009
ISP industry unity again
Another coalition of competitive ISPs has written [
pdf, 266KB] to the CRTC to block interim approval of a Bell / Bell Aliant proposal [Tariff Notice 7181, zip, 148 KB]to implement usage based billing on wholesale internet access services.
This closely follows a coalition filing that we described on Tuesday.
Today's filing comes from a broader group of 8 ISPs plus CAIP: Accelerated Communications, AOL Canada, Cybersurf, Execulink Telecom, EGATE Networks, MNSi, Telnet Communications, Yak.
The coalition says Bell's filings anti-competitive, are not accompanied by proper cost studies and may be based on erroneous data:
Two preliminary observations.
Are we beginning to see a more united ISP industry coalescing that provide better quality regulatory participation than we have typically seen in the past?
Can usage based billing at a wholesale level be accompanied by removal of the application of traffic shaping from these lines?
Technorati Tags:
DSL, Bell, CAIP
pdf, 266KB] to the CRTC to block interim approval of a Bell / Bell Aliant proposal [Tariff Notice 7181, zip, 148 KB]to implement usage based billing on wholesale internet access services.This closely follows a coalition filing that we described on Tuesday.
Today's filing comes from a broader group of 8 ISPs plus CAIP: Accelerated Communications, AOL Canada, Cybersurf, Execulink Telecom, EGATE Networks, MNSi, Telnet Communications, Yak.
The coalition says Bell's filings anti-competitive, are not accompanied by proper cost studies and may be based on erroneous data:
In one case Bell has provided data indicating a residential end user consumed 1 TB (terabyte) of data over 20 hours of use.I think that would imply better than 100Mbps sustained for 20 hours - not bad for a DSL service!
Two preliminary observations.
Are we beginning to see a more united ISP industry coalescing that provide better quality regulatory participation than we have typically seen in the past?
Can usage based billing at a wholesale level be accompanied by removal of the application of traffic shaping from these lines?
Technorati Tags:
DSL, Bell, CAIP
Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 3/27/2009 10:58:00 AM 
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