. This is the CRTC's link to JF's Application of 2011-01-28 to Stay CRTC Decision 2011-44 (UBB), and is our first public online proof that they received it from him.
Hmm I've cleared cache etc etc but the only way I see it on crtc site is through your link.I see no 2011 under stay of execution in chrome or IE when I dont follow your link
quote:Paulina Cumming is required to watch as many as 10 YouTube videos a week for her University of Guelph biology class.
She accesses most of her homework online, including lectures and notes. With the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission deciding on Jan. 25 to allow usage-based billing by internet companies, Cumming is worried she and her five housemates wont be able to afford the higher cost of accessing the internet...
One small internet service provider, TekSavvy based in Chatham....
This morning the CFRB Ottawa correspondent confirms that the Harper gov't is not happy with the CRTC decision and is reviewing it. The correspondent goes on to say that internet bills will increase as much as 90%. Also mentioned were rallies and the big petition. The correspondent then says he figures Clement will send the decision back to the CRTC for a "common sense" review. This got primetime morning exposure and CFRB still has a fairly large listening audience.
Great balls of fire... why on earth would you send it back where it came from in the first place. They should just kill it.
quote:The campaign also got a jolt of legitimacy from a formal, 27-page petition filed to cabinet by a lone computer consultant in Montreal.
Jean-François Mezei, who runs Vaxination Informatique, stayed up late last Wednesday finishing a type of document more commonly filed by the lawyers and regulatory experts of large telecom companies like Bell and Telus.
Mr. Mezei first got involved in 2008 at a protest against carriers being allowed to throttle, or squeeze, their networks to control network congestion.
This process has taken me now from a being a protester on Parliament Hill to successfully handing a petition to the governor in council. And it looks like the minister has gotten the hint that this needs to reversed, Mr. Mezei said.
He said he called Industry Canada on Tuesday and the bureaucrat answering the phone said that in 10 years at Industry he had never seen a document filed by an individual go so high.
My petition was an enabler of this, rather than the cause. But it still feels good to feel like youre part of something big.
. In the 1st clip (from CTV's PowerPlay), Industry Canada Minister Tony Clement is interviewed for 5 minutes and he seems to either understand the issue, or has at least been well briefed on the topic.
quote:"Rather than ensuring consumers receive fair Internet pricing, the CRTC seems content to line the pockets of Cable and telecommunications companies by forcing Canadian consumers to pay Internet data rates that have no basis in reality."
quote:"Rather than ensuring consumers receive fair Internet pricing, the CRTC seems content to line the pockets of Cable and telecommunications companies by forcing Canadian consumers to pay Internet data rates that have no basis in reality."
This is one of the better articles I've read. He approaches it properly and talks about what is fair.
quote:We established independent regulators because theyre supposed to have the expertise, the freedom from partisan pressures, the time and the longer-term perspective to make the painful and complex decisions required to keep industries that are otherwise liable to market failure operating in some semblance of the public interest. Does the cabinet really want to position itself as the effective arbiter for all the campaigns of rent-seeking and special pleading that an institution such as the CRTC has historically dealt with?
....Does the cabinet really want to position itself as the effective arbiter for all the campaigns of rent-seeking and special pleading that an institution such as the CRTC has historically dealt with?
. Prob'ly not.
BUT
If THAT's what it takes to make things right, the SO BE IT !!!