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Thread: Sign of things to come? Canadian ISP to begin charging by usage
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01-31-11, 04:24 PM #1
Sign of things to come? Canadian ISP to begin charging by usage
200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet
Metered Internet usage (also called "Usage-Based Billing") is coming to Canada, and it's going to cost Internet users. While an advance guard of Canadians are expressing creative outrage at the prospect of having to pay inflated prices for Internet use charged by the gigabyte, the consequences probably haven't set in for most consumers. Now, however, independent Canadian ISPs are publishing their revised data plans, and they aren't pretty.
But seriously, this is the problem with Service Providers (AT&T, Verizon, COMCAST, etc) also being the keepers of the proverbial keys as well.
If they are allowed to discourage usage as it detracts from their other businesses (ISP service versus programming service) then we, the consumer, will be quickly bent over the barrel.
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01-31-11, 04:25 PM #2
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01-31-11, 04:30 PM #4
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01-31-11, 04:33 PM #6
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Well - I live in a major city. There is only one ISP available where I live currently. And the bill for service on both the cable programming and the internet service just went up $6 each last month. No change in service. No additional bandwith or channel access. Just "Please give us another $12." "Thank you"
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01-31-11, 04:53 PM #9Re: Sign of things to come? Canadian ISP to begin charging by usage
Congress shot it down didn't they? Or they got involved and the people proposing the change just backed down. I know TWC was one of them proposing it and AT&T U-Verse was the other that I know of.
I loathe the idea of it. However as more people start watching programs and things online instead of traditional TV you'll see higher bandwidth usage and of course they'll try to get as much money out of that as they can if/when that happens.
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