In 2009 both Bell Canada and Shaw, two of Canada's largest broadband providers, sought permission from the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to introduce «usage - based billing», whereby customers exceeding pre-defined monthly
broadband usage limits will be subject to additional fees.
Italians have been slow to embrace online travel purchases for diverse reasons:
broadband penetration is low and still relatively expensive; they are by nature hesitant to release personal information over the Internet; traditional offline players have powerful ties and still sell the vast majority of travel related products; tour operators have been cautious about challenging conventional distribution channels; credit card
usage is still relatively low and most credit cards have
limited spending margins per month and the country's population is aging rapidly, resulting in slower adoption of the Internet than other markets.