An open letter from OpenMedia.ca:
The CRTC has announced they will reexamine metered billing practices. They are seeking public input right now! This is a huge opportunity to stop Internet metering, and to ensure Canadians have access to an unlimited Internet.
Please take a moment to send the CRTC a message here.
OpenMedia.ca asked Canadians to send Ottawa a message about Internet metering, and wow did you ever respond — over 420,000 signed the petition!
The CRTC’s move to review the imposition of billing practices through a public process is in direct response to our petition — they even cited the “public outcry”.
At the same time, we all know a Big Telecom-friendly compromise is being pushed behind closed doors. To avoid another industry crafted solution we urgently need to send a message to the CRTC here.
We must sway the CRTC now to make our previous victories stick . If we don’t convince the CRTC, all could be lost — all Internet users could face a metered Internet and pay up $4 per gigabyte!
We’ve already moved politics in Canada and made it easy for politicians to champion the Internet. Let’s force the CRTC to do the same.
http://openmedia.ca/crtc
We’ve come this far; let’s not stop now,
The OpenMedia.ca team
Background:
OpenMedia.ca’s blog on rabble.ca
Strombo Talks Internet Metering
Vancouver Sun – How B.C. activists fought off the Internet billing plan
Georgia Straight – Geek Speak: Lindsey Pinto, OpenMedia.ca
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