[Fwd: [Important Notice] Many activities at the CRTC that can affect you, the consumer...]

[Jamon Camisso]

Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Important Notice] Many activities at the CRTC that can affect
> you, the consumer...
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:37:46 -0400
> From: TekSavvy Solutions Inc <support-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>
> Reply-To: support-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
> To: ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
> 
> Dear Valued Customer,
> 
> We are writing to you today as many activities are underway to
> shape/reshape Internet use as you all know it. Over the last year some
> of you have been made aware and/or have seen activities on throttling in
> the news or in your daily lives. Another proceeding relating to the
> Internet in Canada required Telecom providers (Bell/Telus/etc.) to
> provide ISPs with wholesale service speeds that match those that they
> offer to their own retail customers.
> 
> Specifically, Bell has been directed by the CRTC to provide matching
> speeds which would allow us all to have more flexibility in our day to
> day online requirements. Instead of adhering to these directives, Bell
> decided to take this issue to the federal Cabinet and at the same time
> file a tariff application with the CRTC proposing to introduce Usage
> Based Billing (UBB) on its wholesale customer accounts.
> 
> What does this mean for you, the consumer?
> 
> Bell provides TekSavvy with last mile, wholesale DSL access services,
> which TekSavvy uses to provide you with your Internet access. If Bell
> were to be allowed to introduce UBB on this service, a cap of 60GB would
> be imposed on all of its users, with very heavy penalties per Gigabyte
> afterwards (multiple times more than our current per Gigabyte rate of
> $0.25/GB on overages). This would inherently all but remove Unlimited
> internet services in Ontario/Quebec and potentially cause large
> increases in internet costs from month to month.
> 
> If you'd like to make your comments/concerns known about what Bell is
> attempting to do, please do so here:
> 
> http://support.crtc.gc.ca/crtcsubmissionmu/forms/Telecom.aspx?lang=e
> 
> Select the word "Tariff" from the drop down list.
> 
> Add the following in Subject Line "File Number # 8740-B2-200904989 -
> Bell Canada - TN 7181" and make your thoughts known!
> 
> The deadline for filing your comments is today at midnight, so hurry!

I tried filing my comments, their site is hideously broken. First it 
doesn't let you know that an email or phone is required. Then submitting 
using Iceweasel (with my browser agent set to Firefox via an extension) 
takes me to a failure page.

Emailing the address on the failure page (procedure-5Yz9yph2bfiw5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org) results 
in a bounce. The bounce is from postmaster-HhQHKA1xuUH2chsKg/YiWw at public.gmane.org I emailed that 
address with the bounced message, and guess what.. it bounced as well.

I am 100% unimpressed with the CRTC, especially considering they're even 
giving Bell any consideration for overselling their network and not 
delivering the services that they're contractually bound to deliver to 
independent ISPs in the first place.

Jamon
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