Legal Commentary

Why metered bandwidth is a bad idea

By David Canton

That’s the title of my Slaw post for today.  It reads as follows.

There has been a firestorm of protest recently over the issue of usage based billing for internet access. 

It is widely recognized that the future of Canada is digital.  This concept has broad government and community support.  This future depends on cost-effective, easy access to the internet. 

Anything that inhibits internet access and use (either wired or wireless), such as the usage based billing we are now seeing, is counterproductive, and a step back to the stone age.  We can’t afford to have have an environment where existing or prospective businesses or consumers have any hesitation to use the tools that are available now, or to innovate and experiment for the future.

Full post as published by eLegal Canton on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).