Classic Quotes from our CRTC Chair

CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein appeared alongside Vice Chair Len Katz before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology yesterday. For more serious analysis, you can read our blog post and our press release about it, but today, I’d like to take a moment to highlight the most controversial/entertaining quotes from von Finckenstein. Let us proceed…

CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein appeared alongside Vice Chair Len Katz before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology yesterday. For more serious analysis, you can read our blog post and our press release about it, but today, I’d like to take a moment to highlight the most controversial/entertaining quotes from von Finckenstein. Let us proceed…

Image by Vojtěch Sedlák

Check out the video HERE (our mash-up is coming soon).

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"Heavy users pay for their heavy use. We want to make sure the 'innocent users' don't have to."

"We like the ruling but we basically think you went too far.": von Finckenstein alleges TekSavvy and some of their colleagues responded to the UBB ruling this way.

"I can't pull these explanations off the top of my head…[while I'm being] called out right her and right now [for answers]" when being asked about the 15% discount.

In response to NDP's Brian Masse claim that "The Conservatives have made us a digital backwater.": "We are absolutely not a digital backwater and in terms of internet use, there are no caps on business use."

"You don't get IPTV over the Internet"

"The explosion of the use of the Internet and the increase in use for video…presumably at peak hours etc." von Finckenstein cited slowing down peer-to-peer traffic as a legitimate internet traffic management practice (ITMP)

When asked "It is making people pay for what they use allowing the ISPs to make more money and build their capacity?" von Finckenstein replied, "If the ISP makes more income to create more capacity. How else would they use that money?"

And our favourite:

When asked, "How do you respond to the 350,000+ people who signed an online petition to have your decision quashed?" von Finckenstein replied, "That is the awesome power of the Internet."

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