For example, if a foreign publication produces 20 million magazines across the continent or for North America and its target market or its main market is the United States but it does a supplementary for Canada, is there a rate breakdown such that their main market area is, for example, $3 per line and their secondary market areas might be $1.50 per line?

Only when the final customer has not provided a meter reading for a given billing interval shall billing be based on estimated consumption or a flat rate.

Smart meters will allow customers to see and react to higher prices typically found during peak hours of consumption, and utilities can use that data to offer load management and energy conservation programs to their customers to help offset rising prices and reduce greenhouse gases.

Pricing policies that better account for the environment will build on: (i) a firmer application of the principle of recovery of costs; (ii) a wider application of pricing structures that provide incentives and the promotion of metering devices; (iii) the assessment of major environmental costs and, where feasible, the internalisation of these costs into prices; (iv) a transparent policy development process with the participation of users and consumers; and, (v) a phased implementation of pricing policies that better integrate sound economic and environmental principles.

An increasingly large number of promotional fares have increased the range of attractive fares for users.

Four and a half million smart metres in operation and time-of-use pricing working in homes and small businesses across Ontario, live and real today, is the largest concentration of smart metres and interconnectivity in North America.