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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A few weeks ago I did what some might deem impossible or unthinkable: I cancelled cable TV. In retrospect it was long overdue. With today’s technology and high speed internet connections, I can watch most of my favorite shows on-demand with little or no extra cost. Ditto for movies, news, and even some sports.
@robbcarson Educate yourself more on the other countries. About your cable tv, I wasn’t referring to package prices, but rather those with the same cable package as you, who watch more than you do, but pay the same. It’s a better comparison as a non-consumable service than your reference to household utilities as a comparison. Enjoy your quarterly “profit-sharing” cheque that ALL employees of a corporation receive, Mr. Telecom Specialist. I’m done here, others can educate you. bye! BYE!
Why is everyone upset over this?? When was the last time you phoned up your utility company ie: electricity provider, natural gas provider etc. etc. and told them to STOP CHARGING ME BY METERING ME!! You haven’t?? Well, let me suggest you and I have been paying USER BASED FEES for decades. It seems strange when the ISP’s DARE charge us by a metered basis we suddenly feel the need to complain. Let’s not be hypocritical, next time you get your utility bill, call them too.
If the UBB goes threw I will cancel internet in my house… I don’t need it that badly. Free to air sat TV is back up and people have once again found away to access to paid channels… woot!
I was against pirated tv and satellite. But it’s hard to feel that way looking at how they are screwing us in the face. I say they screw us they desrve whatever they get in return… after all the bible says and eye for an eye. And the golden rule… do onto others as you would have them do onto you….
@robbcarson How convenient that your profile says your occupation is “telecommunications specialist”. Which of Canada’s telecom corporations do you represent? That’s a rhetorical question, in case my sarcasm isn’t obvious. Thanks so much for your “unbiased” opinion, as well as your (sorry for the comparison, but) “retarded” analogy of User-Based Internet Billing being the same as consumable resource billing. Unfortunately for you, it seems that people aren’t as blind as you think they are.
@deadeyeselh Lmao I enjoy your comment on us Moving Backwards… Could it be because he leads the Conservative party? If you want to move forward vote liberal.. but what if moving forward means paying by the bite? i think really.. the only way anything is going to be changed is if all us Canadians acctually stand up and do something about it.. sign the petitions.. and quit bending over.. we need a politician thats for the people.. a good ol “Tommy Douglas” type to put us on our feet again…
13 people work for Bell.
HACK the meter!!!!!!!!!!
Rogers Robin Hood does it …. Unlimited Internet and movies $10/mo
fuck Rogers
signs of financial problems.
@robbcarson Isn’t internet a different resource than electricity and natural gas? it’s not exactly limited in the same sense. It would be more like suddenly charging by the minute for cable tv wouldn’t it?
All these comments are so big and they make me feel stupid :/
This sounds like a great election issue.
What other countries are you looking at?? Australians cannot believe how CHEAP internet is in Canada and are green with envy. Parts of the U.S. are higher in cost than in Canada. We are basically somewhere in the middle with our costs in Canada, average for a developed, western nation. As for my cable usage, again you are incorrect. I pay for a specific “package” of channels at a specified price while someone down the street who has a larger package pays more. Cable is priced differently.
I have no invested interest in the company for which I work, I am at the bottom of the ladder, therefore, my opinion is strictly as a consumer. I may leave my company tomorrow for another job, there is no “financial” loyalty whatsoever. You “assumption” my opinion is biased is baseless and unfounded and I take exception to your assertions. I stand by my opinion, you use more of anything, you pay more, period. I will not pay the same as someone else who uses 3 or 4 X the amount of anything I do.
They are out right trying to break the spirit of the law to make mass money and give you what they always gave you shitty crappy slow choppy service. It’s funny as soon as I switched I have not had to call my ISP and ask why is my internet not working, after spending 10 minutes making sure it’s not on my end.
Rogers is like a party line the more people on the slower it gets, bell is like using the internet with a blindfold and a pair or shoes with spikes on the inside.
My ISP is working internet
@robbcarson
You don’t get it aren’t you? Internet billing was already based on metering gigabyte transmissions on a neutral basis (that of 1GB = x $). However with UBB, we will have to pay more for a gigabyte from youtube or facebook while paying for a gigabyte from a small website will cost twice what we already pay now (while being the cheapest among all). And if you dare use more GB than allowed, you will have a lot more troubles. Well, you really should try to research more on the subject.
Fuck this is so creepy. Why would anyone watch this until the end???
This UBB is just a symptom of a much larger and sinister problem coming over the horizon, Corruption…. mass corruption and Degradation of democracy and free will and fair market. When greed controls the hearts of man you can’t help but see it in their greatest achievements, government, technology, and world wide communication. I will not stop using the net but I will stop paying for it… I will not support corruption and nore should any other man with a shred of integrity.
The laws of man mean nuthing when they have been corrupted to the point they are today… the law was ment to protect us, to help build a better tomorrow and govern us and keep us moving into the future in a organized and civil fashion….
But the rich and corrupt have perverted it and used it for their own personal ass-wipe…… and now use it as a means to make them rich and you poorer.
Bell, CRTC, Government,judges lawyers, the rich all the same circle.
The rich get richer while we lose.
@robbcarson It’s not only the user-based internet billing policy that is the issue, but the combination of government and the CRTC regulating and preventing foreign competition in Canada . It may not be a monopoly, but as an oligopoly, it’s just as bad with a few corporations controlling the market and “price fixing”. Other countries charge about $20/month for unlimited internet access. I pay $50/month for 60GB. By the way, you do pay the same as someone who watches more cable tv than you
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