Internet access tops the list of many Canadians’ household expenses, and for many, it’s simply not affordable. Yet Canadians need the internet now more than ever to work, learn, and connect with loved ones. The SCC’s decision puts the country one step closer to finally being able to make internet access affordable for Canadians across the country, indicated Stein.
In Telecom Order 2019-288, which the CRTC released in August 2019 after several years of research and consultation, the Commission set final rates for aggregated wholesale high-speed access (HSA) services. The ruling ordered the incumbent cable carriers to correct the rates they charge to independent carriers for wholesale access to their network, and pay back the independents for years of over-charging, to the tune of $325 million – an effort to make internet access more affordable for all Canadians.
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SCOC Refuses Appeal of Wholesale Internet Rates
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The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal launched by Canada’s big telecoms and cable companies over a CRTC decision on wholesale Internet rates.
A group of the country’s big players in the broadband Internet business wanted to appeal a Federal Court ruling that upheld the CRTC decision.
The case dealt with rates the big companies charge smaller broadband carriers.
Companies such as Bell and Rogers sought to overturn a 2019 CRTC decision lowering the wholesale Internet rates they charge.
The CRTC had done a four-year investigation that concluded large carriers systematically deviated from the CRTC’s rate-setting rules to grossly inflate their costs of providing access to their networks.
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Canada’s telecom regulator may force internet service providers to adopt network-level botnet blocking to limit criminally-run automated systems’ ability to spread malware.
ISPs can use several techniques to fight botnets, including domain-based blocking, internet protocol (IP)-based blocking and protocol-based blocking. However, these and other strategies aren’t required by regulation or controlled for possible bias.
But on Wednesday, the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) called for comments on a proposal to require ISPs to implement strategies to fight botnets at the network level by blocking suspicious email, texts and communications by malware to command and control servers.