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Openmedia.ca has a new petition up, to start the fight to moderate the price hikes to internet
service that will be necessary if the current proposed new rates for Wholesale Internet capacity are
allowed to stand. For anyone that doesn't know, Bell and the cable companies have proposed rates
that works out to a 1300% increase over the existing costs. At the same time, they've raised their
own retail rates, lowered the bandwidth caps on all their retail customers, and increased the
maximum amount that they fell they can charge their users for going over those caps.

This raise in the wholesale rate for internet capacity is their next move in the Usage Based Billing
scheme - they've been told that they can't bill wholesalers based on how much data their end
users utilize, but instead can sell "capacity" - which they have done all along, this just
structures it differently. While this is a preferable model to the UBB model, the proposed
pricing is just Bell trying to accomplish UBB through a backdoor, without calling it UBB.

Yet another cash grab.