"Rather than offering its subscribers selected content at different data usage prices, Internet service providers should be offering more data at lower prices," said Jean-Pierre Blais, chairman of the CRTC in a statement. Sponsored data is another approach, in which a company — say, Netflix — could pay your internet provider to exempt their product or service from counting toward your data cap. Past precedentThe CRTC came to a similar conclusion in 2015, when Bell and Videotron found themselves the subject of a similar complaint. The CRTC ruled that the plans allowed Bell and Videotron to favour their own TV services. Some groups such as Open Media had hoped the CRTC would address the use of data caps head-on.

Source: CBC News April 20, 2017 20:00 UTC