Bell Mobility Inc. Klass Application
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Monthly cost to view initial hours of mobile TV $5/10 hours $5110 hours Free/5 hours (with at least a 2 GB data plan); $10/15 hours; $15/30 hours
Monthly cost to view additional hours of mobile TV $3/hour $1/hour $1.5/hour
It once again bears emphasizing that this is a nascent, experimental service in the
exempt digital media broadcasting market. As we pointed out in our 9 January 2014 Answer, Mobile TV is precisely the kind of innovative, consumer-oriented service the Commission intended to foster when it first forbore from licensing these undertakings approximately 15 years ago.28
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The other aspect of the Interveners' undue preference allegation is that Bell Mobility's
data rates applicable to the consumption of programming wirelessly are said to be too high. This too is false. The fact that our pricing of Mobile TV and wireless data connectivity is generally consistent with that of the Canadian industry is sufficient to refute the Interveners' claims that our customers are being harmed by excessive wireless data rates.
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Far from there being evidence of material adverse harm to OTT providers' wireless access to these services is growing
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The second element of the Interveners' undue preference claims is their unsubstantiated
assertion that "competition in the marketplace for OTT services is being harmed to the sole benefit of each of the vertically integrated service providers."29 The evidence shows otherwise.
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As we pointed out in our response to Bell Mobility(CRTC)4Apr14-10, there has been no
substantial lessening of competition in the wake of the launch of Mobile TV. Since the introduction of Mobile TV both Netflix and YouTube have increased market share and viewership. On our HSPA/LTE networks alone their combined traffic dwarfs that represented by Mobile TV, with YouTube and Netflix traffic accounting for", just
# compared with
# of Mobile TV traffic, a ratio of almost
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Bell Mobility 9 January 2014 Answer, paragraphs 7 to 15. See, for example CAC-COSCO-PIAC 5 March 2014 Supplementary Intervention, paragraph 15.