Important for canadians

• Osayidan wrote on 2011-02-01 15:30
  If you don't want to pay hundreds of dollars per month for your internet bill, spread to word to all your friends/family, and even your enemies who live in canada about this.
  
  http://openmedia.ca/meter
  
  It's bad enough Canadian internet is rapidly becoming the absolute worst in the developed world, but now they want to charge you per byte, like your mobile phone's data plan.
  
  Worst yet is that it got approved, and some ISPs are already sending out notices to people about the changes in their billing.
  
  The good news is elections are coming up and if politicians want to remain in office they need to look at these issues, because their opposing parties have already acknowledged it.
  
  Don't let Canada have the worst internet service in the developed world.
• Taycat wrote on 2011-02-01 16:22
  Oh no, we're gonna lose Moppy.
  
  Dangit, what will we do?!
• Micho wrote on 2011-02-01 18:40
  Yeah, Edmonton's Internet is not so great, the Internet here is so slow compared to the US. It's not even funny.
• Lan wrote on 2011-02-01 19:21
  http://mabination.com/threads/19272-WAIT-WAIT-WHAT-!
• Osayidan wrote on 2011-02-01 21:08
  Well it's making progress: http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=27505620
• Mama wrote on 2011-02-02 08:38
  canada's internet is already the most xpensive in the world, and barely good enough to make up for it
  
  a big problem is their idea of charging for going 'over the limit'
  2 dollars for each gb over 60 gigs? when it costs pennies? fat cats.
  what's worse is that companies that do NOT want to charge such unfair prices, get it imposed on from the government from bell and rogers, they have the politicians in their pockets...
  
  it's not surprising theyd pull such a stunt. But people better complain until they change it!!
• Second wrote on 2011-02-02 14:41
  Already signed weeks ago. :D
  I hate bhell. I switched to VOIP and they cut my internet speed in half.
  So I switched to cable as soon as my ISP had it available.
• Lan wrote on 2011-02-02 15:37
  I really wish that Korean companies come here and blow all local companies out of the water forcing them either to adapt or go bankrupt o3o.
• Osayidan wrote on 2011-02-03 03:36

  Quote from Lan;316506:

  I really wish that Korean companies come here and blow all local companies out of the water forcing them either to adapt or go bankrupt o3o.

  
  
  They can't because our lovely leaders put laws in place so telecom companies must be 80% (I think) canadian owned. That means no competition from overseas, or from the US, can come here and set themselves up against local companies. Our friends in parliament basically annihilated competition, and now they also want to allow the ISPs to rape us even more.
• Second wrote on 2011-02-04 11:04
  Well good news to Canadians.
  CRTC decided to delay UBB for two months for review.
  But Tony Clement said on TV that he will overturn UBB even if the CRTC doesn't back down. (of course, he could get rejected)
  
  Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/932571--ottawa-to-reverse-crtc-decision-on-internet-billing?bn=1
• gentrone wrote on 2011-02-04 12:19

  Quote from Osayidan;318047:

  They can't because our lovely leaders put laws in place so telecom companies must be 80% (I think) canadian owned. That means no competition from overseas, or from the US, can come here and set themselves up against local companies. Our friends in parliament basically annihilated competition, and now they also want to allow the ISPs to rape us even more.

  
  
  That is really bad for the economy.
• Chockeh wrote on 2011-02-04 17:08
  **** this man, I support.
• Osayidan wrote on 2011-02-05 00:16
  The major network companies are scared sh*tless of the internet. That's the real reason for things like this, and all the lobbying to try and convince lawmakers to do things their way.
  
  For around 50 years there's been phone, television, and more recently internet. The big three. The providers could happily charge you for three services that to most households is considered essential.
  
  Now the world is gaining better and better internet infrastructure, technology is evolving rapidly. The big three are soon to be obsolete, and all that will be left is the internet. You can already, and could have for years now, get rid of your phone and TV subscriptions. It's all available online. There's VoIP services for phone like skype and many others, there's streaming TV, either live or on demand (things like netflix, and different services like youtube). The scariest part to them is how cheap these services are in comparison to what they offer.
  
  If every Canadian citizen had access to high bandwidth like residents of some Asian and European countries have, with no monthly caps and at reasonable rates, television and phone businesses will vanish overnight. They will do everything in their power to delay this transition, as opposed to adapting to it. This makes me a little bit happy, because by fighting it so hard, they will fall the hardest at the end.
  
  If they instead adapted to the new technologies, everyone could have high bandwidth at reasonable prices, provided by the same people who are fighting so hard to stop it, and they'll make just as much money if not more, and for a long period of time rather than only the next 5 years or so.