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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by sjs on Sunday January 30, 2011 @01:50PM (#2158753)
This situation really sucks, but remember that those of us with Telus or Shaw don't have anything to complain about at the moment so you aren't hearing about all of us on 10-25 mbps lines, with 50-200 GB soft caps that aren't enforced. I'm torrenting up a storm 24/7, and regularly download shows and movies on iTunes and Netflix, stream Grooveshark at home and on my phone. I don't even hear anything if I use 2x my monthly data transfer. Our upstream bandwidth is still terrible though :/

I don't envy the US at all, I envy Sweden, Japan, South Korea. No offence but I'd sooner move to many places before the USA.

Don't get me wrong, the CRTC is worse than useless actively harming the tech landscape. We have zero competition with Internet and phone pricing at all, the big guys basically just fix prices because it's more profitable for them to collude than compete. We have a lot of major problems.

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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by fyrerise on Sunday January 30, 2011 @03:55PM (#2159148)
This isn't accurate. Shaw has recently jumped on the same bandwagon and started enforcing hard caps with overage fees. Just go here if you want to check that:

http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/High-Spee...

($2.00/GB for each GB used above plan’s limit)

AFAIK, Telus isn't doing yet, but I've heard that this is a technical limitation rather than lack of desire to do so.

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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by spitfire on Sunday January 30, 2011 @06:30PM (#2159559)
Have you actually gotten a bill from them yet? My bill is the same $47/mo it's been for a while. I don't have a tv.
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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by gamble on Sunday January 30, 2011 @09:56PM (#2160085)
I have. They are enforcing it now.
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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by spitfire on Monday January 31, 2011 @02:15AM (#2160608)
Where are you located?
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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by gamble on Monday January 31, 2011 @01:46PM (#2162651)
Edmonton. They started reporting bandwidth usage on last month's bill.
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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by spitfire on Monday January 31, 2011 @09:08PM (#2164113)
Interesting. (Terrifying). Canada is now a third world country. Way to go CRTC.
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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by jacquesm on Sunday January 30, 2011 @02:36PM (#2158906)
Shaw is cable right?
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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by westajay on Sunday January 30, 2011 @07:47PM (#2159743)
They also operate their own internet backbone and sell access to corporate clients.
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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by sjs on Sunday January 30, 2011 @08:25PM (#2159855)
It may be just a matter of time before they follow suit. Who knows, it surely would not be a surprise.
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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by delano on Sunday January 30, 2011 @02:52PM (#2158950)
Yep.
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Re:Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. by EdwardCoffin on Sunday January 30, 2011 @02:54PM (#2158953)
Yes
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