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CRTC Finalizes ISP Usage-Based Billing / Canada Bandwidth Cap Thread: News in OP/p275
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Give me net neutrality or give me death.
I remember being one of four on 250 megabytes per day. I did not care for that scenario.
edit to clarify: The internet price chart is what I'm referring to.
D:
We are brothers now.
My family uses a 95 GB Rogers set-up, and we can barely keep within that, the numbers of times I've ended a month on 94.5 GB is amazing. My brother watches all his TV via a slingbox, soaking up our upload, and I'm a download hog. 25 a month is going to last a week.
From researching this more apparently this only affects DSL connections and not cable-internet connections (yet)? So it sounds like if you're on a cable connection you've got a while to still enjoy what you got while people fight the ruling on DSL connections.
Not sure about that, at least two providers (Primus and iiNet) have 1TB download limit options now.
So let me get this straight. These two companies are going to benefit by their government forcing 25GB per month restrictions on it's citizens... What could the government hope to gain from this besides pissing a lot of people off?
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I should get in on that.
Probably crazy expensive with slow up/down speeds though.
Who cares about the people, they don't mean squat.
People that run the CRTC are former Bell and Rogers execs with stock in those companies.
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I mean, yeah, I'm pretty cheesed this is happening, but...
If things keep going the way they are UBB's will be in place across the board before you know it. As far as I know Rogers is applying for one to go into effect later this year. So we're all essentially fucked, some just sooner than others.
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Yeah the very people that is suppose to be protecting us are those who are in league with said companies, they're as corrupt as can be and don't give a crap, they're making the money and that's all they care about, not like the government really gets in their way to do anything.
Sadly this is going to affect everyone, any that think the other companies won't follow suit is going to be in for a rude awakening in due time.
Strange that organizations like the CRTC are meant to prevent things like this, but that didn't stop Canadians from having one of the worst cellular services in the western world, and it looks like internet is about to follow.
Is the torrenting brother gonna be an issue?
Most of the new shiny things the internet offers will suddenly threaten your wallet.
Netflix and Youtube (HD) chief among them.
Downloading Game Demos for Xbox Live or the PS3
Steam Downloads.
Really anything that takes longer than 1 minute to download with a decent connection.
Oh fuck me, surely Canada has some kind of corruption watch-dog that would feed on this kind of action.
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25GB is pathetic, wtf.
at 25GB you casually browsing youtube throughout the month alone could take a sizable chunk out of your cap
THIS DOES AFFECT SHAW
They already have UBB on my latest bill.
Not active yet, but soon.
Soon.
For now they just keep putting a chart on my bill saying "Hey look, you went 40gb over your "cap" this month, you shouldn't really do that you know."
Oh this so much, I spent the summer in Canada, and never got a phone because how ridiculously expensive and complicated getting a temporary pre-paid phone over there is. Down here I can get a number on a chip to use on my own phone with 30 free minutes, for less than $15. Or one with a cheap phone with 100 free minutes for about $25.
Canada? The cheapest I could find in Vancouver was $20 for the chip only. You had to pay an activation fee and the minimum prepaid amount which was maybe $10. If I wanted a phone with it, I think it was $80+
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Jesus. When I first read it, I thought it was a maximum of $22.50 which I thought wasn't too bad if subscription models were lower. Like $20 each month to a maximum of $42.50 a month, but no, it's unlimited charging. That's just insane.
25gb? I've seen thumb drives bigger than that. And I thought Comcast's 250gb 'limit' that violating too many times means they'll send you a letter and threaten to cut you off, but don't charge you extra for was a little stupid (not that I've even got close to it).
In this day and age, they can't even spin this as something necessary. Old people will go over 25GB a month, families will easily go over 25GB a month, etc. They can't disguise it as anything but a cash grab and an attempt to become more of a monopoly by wiping out the independents.
Wish you Canadians the best of luck fighting this.
As if a million Canadian gamers suddenly cried out at once, and were suddenly silenced (because they went over their cap).
Sorry, but in all honesty, my heart goes out to you, Canada. This is terrible.
Internode has a 1TB a month cap for $120. Counts up and down, but still, you'd have a hard time hitting that month after month. Or I would anyway.
I can consistantly get 200GB a month down only during ratings seaons
Hello, other Anti.
I can go through 25 GB in a day.
Or I could if the speeds around here weren't so awful.
The argument that few people download or upload that much data ignores households with a decent amount of people and increasing data intensive internet usage like Steam, Netflix, etc.
my god
someone up there just needs to make a political party based on unfucking the internet
and vote the bastards OUT
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So....huh? Are we saying now that there will be only one plan, with a 25 gig cap?
No, they'll still probably have the multiple plans. It's just that right now, if you use an independent ISP, they have their own plans, many with unlimited bandwidth or ridiculously high bandwidth limits. They're not allowed to offer that anymore.
I'm guessing this is it.
This sucks.