Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Mazier. To help all of us, including me, understand the purpose of this bill, one of the things I did was to go to the websites of the Internet service providers, the big guys—Rogers, Bell and Telus—to try to find out how they market this. I think this is obviously what you're trying to get at.
When I go to Rogers, for example, on this 2.5 gigabit package for $135 a month, they say, “up to 2.5 Gbps download speed”, and when I go further on to their other packages that cost less, they say, “up to 500 Mbps download speed”. I went to Bell's, and they use similar but different terminology throughout their various options. They talk about maximum download speed, and Telus does the same.
First of all, a consumer is required to have a basic understanding of what the heck that means at that speed, which I'm not sure most average everyday people do, but it does impact the price they're charging.
Second, the maximum speed is probably in a perfect world. Is this what you're trying to get at—the fact that Internet companies market using terminology like “up to”, which is sort of like saying “almost” or “perhaps”?