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In case you are not one of the 420,000+ citizens who have signed the Stop the Meter petition you should know that Canadians are up in arms over the Telco industry's insistence on a Usage Based Billing (UBB) model for internet access.
At the heart of the issue is a recent decision by the CRTC that enables Canada's big Telcos to force independent internet service providers (ISPs) into a usage based billing model whereby they are required to pay for exceeding bandwidth caps set by the telcos. This effectively imposes UBB on the majority of Canadians who access the internet via a broadband connection.
