Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use

[phi delt reefer]

signed - I use Teksavvy (bell reseller) but the owner Rocco is also trying to derail the motives of the big 3 and their monopoly on the country.

[lastlight]

Done.

I so wouldn't be surprised if I just signed up to get telemarketing calls at 10pm at night and more junk mail in both my email and mail box. That's the *real* beauty of playing on the internet.

[hillegom]

I signed up for those late night calls as well lol

[TheDogFather]

Originally Posted by hillegom

I signed up for those late night calls as well lol

Please, this is a serious issue and insinuating that the petition will sign you up for telemarketing calls does not help the issue.

That being said, thanks for taking the time to sign it and please forward the link to anyone who cares about fair competition for ISP's in Canada!

-TDF

[ALang]

Signed, and forwarded this to all my contacts. Hopefully they'll sign, too.
What a crock of sh*t this is. We are forever paying more for less. Thanks for the thread.

[randallino]

Done, thanks for the heads up!

[mseepman]

Signed...thanks for passing the info on.

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by TheDogFather

Please, this is a serious issue and insinuating that the petition will sign you up for telemarketing calls does not help the issue.

That being said, thanks for taking the time to sign it and please forward the link to anyone who cares about fair competition for ISP's in Canada!

-TDF

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

[globaldesigns]

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.

[DiverDude]

Originally Posted by globaldesigns

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.

I'm with Rick on this one. Why should my mother who uses maybe a couple of Gig a month suddenly pay more for internet because somebody sits on their couch all day watching movies on Netflix ?

I think Rick's got it nailed -the big companies are looking to apply moderate rate increases across the board -and this will bring them MUCH more cash than simply billing the abusers. Of course, that detail will never see the light of day; they'll just point out that bandwidth usage is increasing all the time (and it is) and that everyone has to pay more.

I'll sign the petition because I know that's what going to happen and that's not right. However, I approve of (and would support) a proper initiative to see them cover their additional costs on abusers.