[Newsbot]

Title: Backlash grows over Internet billing decision
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-01-29 00:44:23
Canadian

[martin14]

if anyone finds a link to the petition mentioned in the article, please post it.

Then everyone at CKA needs to sign it.

[Hyack]

I think this is what you're looking for....

http://openmedia.ca/meter

[PostFactum]

Hyack Hyack:

I think this is what you're looking for....

http://openmedia.ca/meter

Done

[Public_Domain]

[RUEZ]

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

Internet rise!

I think you're losing it man.

[Curtman]

$1:

Meanwhile the CEO of Netflix, the U.S.-based movie streaming service that launched in Canada in September, has said the ruling is something he's "definitely worried about."

I don't expect anyone will listen to us lowly consumers, but hopefully Netflix, the VOIP providers, and so on will make some legal noise about Bell doing this to squeeze them out of the market.

[Alta_redneck]

I'm on the bubble whether I'll be charged more, if they do charge me more I'm going to tell Shaw to stick their Internet up their ass.

There's free Internet where I go for coffee ( or up until now anyways ) and that will tide me over for awhile. A mass disconnect will be heard a lot louder than this petition ever will.

Shaw doesn't know how stubborn I am, hopefully there's a few more like me out there, but I have my doubts.

[saturn_656]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Shaw doesn't know how stubborn I am, hopefully there's a few more like me out there, but I have my doubts.

I'm with you.

[RUEZ]

With the importance of the internet and the future use, it's hard to believe the CRTC would be so backwards as to allow ISP's to cap useage at such low levels, and charge such huge amounts for overage. I've never really liked the CRTC but this is the bonehead move of the century.

[Lemmy]

You've identified the key elements. Now we just need to put the axiom into a mathematical form:

CRTC = backwards + bonehead.

[CommanderSock]

What about the F word?

Foreign competition could do us wonders.

[saturn_656]

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

What about the F word?

Foreign competition could do us wonders.

Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Shaw wouldn't last 24 hours if they had to compete with American telcos.

[Lemmy]

So what? Those four companies are about the worst offenders in the country for gouging consumers, shitty service and anti-competitive behaviour. It'd be good for Canadians to see those four companies go tits up.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Isn't it funny how this country has been happy to gut real jobs in the manufacturing centre in the "spirit" of international trading and lower prices but protects these companies like they were virgins trapped in a hentai movie?