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BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada says its billing methods and rates are satisfactory for the “vast majority” of customers while those who gorge on bandwidth must simply pay the price for it.

The comments are aimed at countering recent accusations leveled by consumer groups of veiled profiteering by the country’s largest Internet provider and others.

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Public fury, inflamed by a regulatory decision last week, has been steadily if slowly building against the practice of “usage-based billing” at Bell as well as other major providers like Rogers Communications Inc.

Big firms have moved in recent years to tighten the amount of bandwidth they allot to customers each month, then charging for bandwidth use beyond the initial “cap”.

Regulators at the CRTC have been lobbied to mandate the trend for the entire industry.

Major network owners, many of whom are looking to fixed broadband to offset revenue pressure in other areas, scored a key victory last Tuesday.