I was the one that made the joke you can be serious with me if you'd like lol.

I have a different take on this, and do agree with the ISP's in many ways.

Here is an article about it on CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2011/...canadians.html

I think the problem is that the ISP's will make it a cash grab and screw everyone, but in reality they should apply the fees to the abusers only.

If the ISP's were smart they would provide packages. If you are a small user, surfing the occasional website and doing email... Then no change or even better a lower price, but if you use Netflix for 5 hours a night, download tonnes of music or whatever, then you pick a higher usage package, if you need more bandwidth then again you pay more. I see no problem with that, based on that is the major cost to all ISP's, Hosting companies and so on...

Lets see what happens, but most likely as I already stated, the ISP will take advantage of the basic usage and gouge them some extra cash.

Signed, thanks for the heads up.

If the ISP's don't charge more for city internet usage (especially heavy users), how are they supposed to fund expansion of reasonable rural broadband service?

:mrgreen:

No LFS and no high-speed. Sort it out Mitch!

I don't want to be the big negative on this one.. but i think it's be good. Why am i paying for other people to download movies? It's like your electrical bill, if we all paid an average rate i'd be ****ed that my house is heated with gas. My theory is that most people only use a fraction of their internet, others download 60GB+ a month(max on shaw). I download some movies, but no where near the amount some other people run, so why do i pay the same as them?

Anyways, my 2 cents, there's always 2 sides to an argument.

You don't want me to move back to the city do you?

...hmm, maybe you need a new neighbour?:twised:

Yeah the side of me that wants to download movies still signed the petition as a gut reaction. If this change actually meant users who download less would pay less than their CURRENT amount (I doubt that will happen) I'd sorta support it because I still don't use all that much bandwidth with a movie here and there.

I agree with Lampshade,

I don't see a problem with paying for a service as used.

I signed the petition because there are only a few ISP companies to choose from and they make a lot money. All companies lose money in someway or another, everyone knows that. We as consumers who already pay high prices for services should not have to pay these new fees. I'm not sure what the percentage of abusers there are but I'm sure it's no where near the percentage of people who don't abuse the service. IMHO it's huge cash grab and they will take full advantage and integrate these new fees into everyone's monthly bill, abuser or not.