Yesterday while doing research on usage based billing for another story in my series on UBB, I came across some interesting search engine results. I wanted to see how one of my recent UBB stories was performing in Google search engine rankings. I had spent quite a bit of time doing search engine optimization (SEO) on that story and was expecting good search engine results. As it turns out, my SEO work was pretty effective. When I ran a search on …Continue reading » Bell Canada Buys Its Way to the Top of Google Search Engine Rankings for Usage Based Billing

While doing some research for my recent series of stories about usage based billing (UBB) for internet access in Canada, I came across a particularly thoughtful and compelling critique of UBB written by John Robertson.

Mr. Robertson, who is also known as Potato, wrote the UBB critique in response to CRTC Telecom Decision 2011-44, Usage-based billing for Gateway Access Services and third-party Internet access services.

With Mr. Robertson’s permission, I am publishing an excerpt from his excellent critique below. The full critique is available over at his blog, Blessed by the Potato. Like me, he has written a series of stories about UBB.

Without further ado, here the excerpt from Mr. Robertson’s critique: …Continue reading » A Critique of CRTC Telecom Decision 2011-44 Regarding Usage Based Billing

Price gouging. Profiteering. Highway robbery. These are the words that come to mind when you get right down to the details of internet usage based billing (UBB) in Canada.

By now, you have probably heard …Continue reading » Usage Based Billing for Internet Access Fails the Smell Test