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Vaxination Informatique<\/a> filed a cabinet appeal of Usage Based Billing [pdf<\/a>], anchoring the appeal on Telecom Decision CRTC 2010-802<\/a>, which was issued on October 28, 2010. It raises some procedural issues worth exploring.<\/p>\n

Under Section 12(1)<\/a> of the Telecom Act, a petition to the Governor-in-Council may be filed within 90 days of the decision:<\/p>\n

Within one year after a decision by the Commission, the Governor in Council may, on petition in writing presented to the Governor in Council within ninety days after the decision, or on the Governor in Council\u2019s own motion, by order, vary or rescind the decision or refer it back to the Commission for reconsideration of all or a portion of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the petition is on time for that Decision, however there is some question as to whether 2010-802 is the right decision to be appealed. The petition attaches a caption of “Usage-based billing for Gateway Access Service” to the decision on the cover of the document. In fact, the approval of Gateway Access Service occured with a May 6 Decision, 2010-255<\/a>. The October Decision dealt primarily with the rates to be charged and the issue of whether all of the retail customers had to be charged on the basis of UBB prior to any wholesale customers.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that usage based billing was approved in 2009 in Telecom Decision 2009-658<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0set out\u00a0by the dissenting opinion of Commissioner Molnar in the Decision last May, usage based pricing was already a rating concept that was firmly esptablished in Canada’s internet services market.<\/p>\n

Vaxination’s cabinet appeal does not specify the relief being sought, there is no draft order proposed for approval. The closest I can find is the final paragraph of the Executive Summary, which says:<\/p>\n

Therefore, The Commission must be told to rescind all decisions related to the TN7181 tariff an ensure that GAS and TPIA tariffs be reviewed to ensure they contain only aspects related to the nature of that service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Under the law, Cabinet only has the power to rescind a CRTC decision withn 12 months of the original decision. For usage based billing to be eradicated, Cabinet has to act before May 6, just over 3 months from now. The problem is timing, and not just with the petition being filed too late. There needs to be a publication in the Canada Gazette and distribution to the parties who appeared before the CRTC in the original proceedings. Finally, the Minister has to notify the provinces prior to making a recommendation to cabinet. All that in the next 13 weeks if Decision 2010-255 is to be rescinded. Call me skeptical.<\/p>\n

The way around this would have been to try to convince Cabinet to review the decision of its own motion. I wrote about that<\/a> a little over a year ago in my discussion of the Globalive ownership process. In Processes and procedures<\/a>, I wrote that there is not a lot of procedural definition for a Cabinet\u00a0review of its motion. In an environment charged with the rhetoric of an election, this might have been a route worth pursuing, engaging legal and government relations assistance. Perhaps these would be beyond the financial means of Vaxination, but surely not Netflix, a company now worth $11B, that “worries<\/a>” its business model is at risk in Canada.<\/p>\n

If the welfare of Netflix Canada and\u00a0the entire independent ISP community is being threatened by UBB, then it might have been worth someone investing a few dollars\u00a0to get\u00a0professional advice on how to put the best foot forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vaxination Informatique filed a cabinet appeal of Usage Based Billing [pdf], anchoring the appeal on Telecom Decision CRTC 2010-802, which was issued on October 28, 2010. It raises some procedural issues worth exploring. Under Section 12(1) of the Telecom Act, a petition to the Governor-in-Council may be filed within 90 days of the decision: Within …<\/p>\n

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