{"id":45474,"date":"2015-03-25T00:42:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T16:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45474"},"modified":"2015-03-25T00:42:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T16:42:58","slug":"court-orders-bell-to-drop-mobile-tv-pricing-while-it-appeals-crtc-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/25\/court-orders-bell-to-drop-mobile-tv-pricing-while-it-appeals-crtc-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Court orders Bell to drop mobile TV pricing while it appeals CRTC decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45631\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bell_Mobility_HQ_In_Mississauga_-_2012.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45631 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bell_Mobility_HQ_In_Mississauga_-_2012-1024x673.png\" alt=\"Bell Mobility Headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"604\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bell_Mobility_HQ_In_Mississauga_-_2012-1024x673.png 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bell_Mobility_HQ_In_Mississauga_-_2012-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bell_Mobility_HQ_In_Mississauga_-_2012-900x592.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bell Mobility Headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Bell Mobility Inc., has been told it can&#8217;t keep offering customers preferential treatment for its mobile TV application while it appeals a ruling by the telecom regulator that would force it to scrap that pricing model.<\/p>\n<p>Bell Mobility, which is owned by BCE Inc., had asked the Federal Court of Appeal for an injunction while it appeals a decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that it end its $5-a-month charge for Bell Mobile TV service.<\/p>\n<p>The CRTC ruled in January that Bell can no longer exempt customers&#8217; wireless data used through the app from their monthly caps.<\/p>\n<p>The pricing arrangement originally allowed Bell customers to stream up to 10 hours of programming on their mobile devices without counting the usage against their monthly wireless data caps.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was subsequently reduced to 5 hours of live and on-demand television programming on their mobile devices with no effect on monthly data caps.<\/p>\n<p>The company argued that changing its billing practices would cause it irreparable harm.<\/p>\n<p>But a Federal Court of Appeal judge rejected the argument, noting that Rogers Communications Inc. and Videotron Ltd. &#8212; two of Bell&#8217;s competitors &#8212; have already changed their pricing of similar apps.<\/p>\n<p>Bell wouldn&#8217;t comment Monday on specifics of the ruling, other than to say it will continue with its appeal against the original CRTC decision.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the data-cap pricing model said it gave Bell the power to artificially inflate the price of independent services like Netflix while denying consumers choice on a level playing field.<\/p>\n<p>Bell says there is no evidence that the pricing model harms consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Bell Mobility Inc., has been told it can&#8217;t keep offering customers preferential treatment for its mobile TV application &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}