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Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.

 
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02/01/2011 08:53 PM
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Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
People have become accustomed to receiving unlimited access to the Internet for a set monthly payment.

But all that is set to change in Canada where metered usage will be introduced next month.

The pay-as-you-go floodgates were opened when the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission's decision last September to allow Bell Canada, the country's largest telecommunications company, to begin usage-based billing.

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02/01/2011 08:56 PM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
Yep ..cocksuckers, somebody should set up a wi-fi ship off the coast.
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02/01/2011 08:56 PM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
people forget AOL tried this and look what happen to them
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02/01/2011 08:57 PM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
we need to let in U.S. providers to compete.
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02/01/2011 08:59 PM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
Costing me...150$ a month for Phone, 40 TV channels, 60gigs worth of internet. Plus 1.50$ a gig if I bust.
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02/01/2011 09:00 PM
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That's what happens once you let them regulate guns like you'll did. They get this power trip going and decide you'll give up more freedoms. Slowly tightening the screws they are!hf
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
burnityep, i am in the U.S. Arizona and i just got a letter from suddenlink.com
telling me that they will "enhance my internet experience by now charging per GB" some .... decided my allowance is based on internet speed (im at less than 10mbps down) is 12GB... WTF? get your modems out people.. sad sad..
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03/30/2012 04:07 AM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
It has never been unlimited anyway. You americans and canadians really have RIDICULOUS net access (At ridiculous prices).
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03/30/2012 04:18 AM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
people forget AOL tried this and look what happen to them
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Yea but this time probably all will do it and sheeple will take it.
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03/30/2012 04:26 AM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
we've gotta get used to living without such amenities
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03/30/2012 04:58 AM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
I pay $75 a month for 25 gb
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03/30/2012 05:09 AM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
I pay $75 a month for 25 gb
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I pay ~$18 (Contract-free, otherwise $15) for completely unlimited Fiber to the base.
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03/30/2012 05:13 AM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
Just like ATM cards were to save banks check processing costs and handed out like candy. After the bait and switch, you are paying banks to access your money.

Same with the unlimited data. How better to control your information, get you addicted and how can you pull the plug now?

Drug dealer thug mentality. Canada in no way is suffering from bandwidth exhaustion. Canada was on of the first nations to create a optical fiber telecommunications infrastructure.

Canada has so much dark fiber, they don't know how to utilize it. Perhaps they could help out some American companies on Northern East / West capacity.
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03/30/2012 05:17 AM
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Re: Canadians forced to pay for internet usage PER gigabyte.
I have unlimited and have not received any notice that the company I deal with is going to change this

and bell has always charged for the amount you use thats why I dropped them as soon as I could, not only that thier service trully sucked..I like to speak to someone who knows English and understand the Canadian way,not someone across the ocean that can barely talk English and has no idea on a Canadian map where I live..

so for now I am happy with my internet provider and will stick with them as long as I can





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