Canadians, fight for your interwebs!

• Osayidan wrote on 2011-02-09 00:06
  Send a message to the CRTC explaining why usage based billing is a bad idea.
  Use your best grammar and be polite.
  
  Send it through here:http://openmedia.ca/crtc
  
  Here's mine:
  
  

  Dear CRTC,
  
  The internet is the new venue for providing services and conducting business. Many industries such as video streaming and content on demand (example: Netflix) require large amounts of data transfer for even a single television series episode. There are many other examples such as software as a service (SaaS) an emerging business model of providing applications as a web page. Even more examples include online gaming which is gaining popularity with younger generations, online shopping, phone via internet services (VoIP), video chat, and much more.
  
  Our internet connections are no longer just used for email and browsing simple web pages like in the late 90's. This is 2011, and Canada is being left behind in the telecommunications industry due to lack of competition. Please take the time to examine the telecommunication services offered in areas of Europe such as Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and areas of Asia such as S. Korea and Japan, as well as in the United States which are already far ahead of us.
  
  What Usage Based Billing would do to this rapidly advancing technology is devastating. Canada risks being left behind or outright ignored by many markets due to consumers being reluctant to make use of such services due to bandwidth costs, while in practically any other developed nation on this planet people do not have this problem.
  
  Please take the time to consider the technological implications, which in turn will result in severe economic losses in many markets. If necessary I urge you to contact Canadian and/or foreign university researchers who would likely be happy to present information about this to the CRTC.
  
  This issue is not about favoring the internet service providers or favoring the consumers, it is an issue of evolving technology being limited by unnecessary economic restraints, and as a result Canada risks loosing important economic sectors that are already rapidly growing in many places, including Canada (though not for long at this rate).
  
  Thank you,
  

• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-02-09 00:10

  Quote from Osayidan;326343:

  loosing

  
  
  I hope you didn't send it yet. I didn't even start reading when the word literally blasted itself into the spotlight and shined in my eyes.
  
  

  [Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/KitaeK27/1291523471849.jpg]
• Osayidan wrote on 2011-02-09 00:19
  Nope D: Secretary at work is fixing it up and then everyone at the office is sending in a copy of it.
• Skye wrote on 2011-02-09 00:24
  Nicely structured and very moving. Thank goodness you didn't send it with "loosing" in there.
• Rahannnn wrote on 2011-02-09 00:46
  Are people from America allowed to bump in :D?
• Osayidan wrote on 2011-02-09 00:53

  Quote from Rahannnn;326470:

  Are people from America allowed to bump in :D?

  
  
  Not really, it's for people who live here. Though I wish we had international support.
• Rahannnn wrote on 2011-02-09 01:12
  Aww shet , I was going to post that shet all over Facebook.
• Mama wrote on 2011-02-09 02:18
  my brother was listening to the parliamentary debate about it today, I heard maybe five minutes of it.. it sounded like it went well. a lot of smaller companies vouching for choice, and pointing out the flaws on the big guys like bell. it was nice.
• Kanam wrote on 2011-02-13 07:44
  http://openmedia.ca/blog/tvos-agenda-covers-ubb
  
  Bringing up the topic with something you guys might want to watch. Bibic basically just call us all idiot, and that we who signed the petition don't know about how things work.
• Iyasenu wrote on 2011-02-13 08:25
  I saw something about this on the wiki!
  
  Gee I hope this whole usage-based billing thing doesn't happen.
  
  It seems like all it would be, is you all paying a lot more, for less internet.
• NewbieNub wrote on 2011-02-13 08:34

  Quote from Cucurbita;326354:

  I hope you didn't send it yet. I didn't even start reading when the word literally blasted itself into the spotlight and shined in my eyes.
  
  

  [Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/KitaeK27/1291523471849.jpg]

  
  
  ^ My expression when I saw loosing.
• Second wrote on 2011-02-13 15:09

  Quote from Kanam;333986:

  http://openmedia.ca/blog/tvos-agenda-covers-ubb
  
  Bringing up the topic with something you guys might want to watch. Bibic basically just call us all idiot, and that we who signed the petition don't know about how things work.

  
  I think I get mad every time Bibic opens his mouth. He never answers a question completely. They're all filled with half truths and deflections.
  He some how got journalists to think the internet is a "finite and scarce resource". /facepalm
• paladin wrote on 2011-02-13 15:47

  Quote from Second;334127:

  I think I get mad every time Bibic opens his mouth. He never answers a question completely. They're all filled with half truths and deflections.
  He some how got journalists to think the internet is a "finite and scarce resource". /facepalm

  
  
  Am sorry but anyone who thinks that is a tart
  If i had to peg one thing that has the worlds biggest user base in the world its the internet only beat out by maybe telecommunications