You can stop this here: The CRTC just decided to let your Internet Service Provider put a meter on the Internet! You can stop this here Bell Canada and other big telecom companies can now freely impose usage-based billing on independent Internet Service Providers (indie ISPs) and YOU. This means we're looking at a future where ISPs will charge per byte, the way they do with smart phones. If we allow this to happen Canadians will have no choice but to pay m
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@Kirkulez
You make a great point, I should work out over a month my Mb/s total month and ask for a rebate. I think the biggest crooks are the old fogey’s at CRTC…don’t even get me started on mobiles
im still paying
considering the amount of speed we get here in the USA, I get 7mbps and it is fast and love it. A connection that is always on is good, its bullshit that some companies are doing this. High speed internet should be Unlimited, I know mine is!
All of the mainstream parties are in bed with the monopolies. Monopolies cannot exist with out government support, period. Remember the 64 billion dollars handed over to the banks, and the Canadian banks were never in trouble. The answer is simple, we cant support any of them, just don’t vote. They will find it impossible to run things with .000001 percent of the vote, only then can things change.
In Korea and Japan they pay a smaller amount to surf the web than we do. In fact web cafes have become popular for this reason, its really cheap to surf the web. So stop with all these maintenence reason, Bell and Rogers doesn’t even give us proper services. Im pretty sure everyone here dreads calling them and have spent hours screaming at them.
@evildevinity I AGREE!!!
COMPANION CUUUBBEE~!
@Dagens24 Not true, I’m using about 75Gb and its because we use a lot of youtube and gaming, Had university+ work and I go about 75 to 110 GB WITHOUT pirating anything.
What needs to be driven home to our elected officials is that the billing scheme will increase revenues for the companies who already make excellent profits on these services!! There is a reasonable level of profit in a truly competitive system and they are already above it compared to similar services in other countries, as close as the U.S.A. and as far as Australia.
hahaha nice hair what a loser
didn’t the government overturn this?
@twadsy What about the increase in bandwidth AVAILABLE from technology improvement? Or are you ignoring that part?
I have been told the speed is 10mb……… sorry its upto 10mb……. which means that the hours at which I am on internet………… the speed is going to be like 100kb. Ooops its congestion. and they are not gonna pay you back. A contractor quoting over 20% of estimate is committing fraud. But ISPs are not gonna get charge for providing service of 90% lower than initial estimate. If I am getting charge for the data, then I want the discount for lower utility.
We canceled our TV service to save money because we get charged 50 extra dollars on the internet a month.
COMPANION CUBEE~!
Amazing how many apologists/cable company employees lurk here. UBB SUCKS ASS.
dang now thats emo, grew up with the wrong crowd oh well it is what it is
EMO FAG! FUCK BELL, ROGERS ALL THE FAGS WHO CONTROL THE INTERNET! We want unlimited. We pay big bucks for this shit. We want faster internet not slower.
100 GB a month?? I think if people weren’t such consumers this wouldn’t be such a problem.
For me personally. I download games I have purchased from steam and this comes to about 30 GB sometimes a month on top of that I am a software engineer so I am constantly using the internet for research and aid. This increase would about triple my cost of internet as I can easily go through 100 GB a month as this guy is doing.
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