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In case you don’t already know, there is a petition campaign type thing going around the internet about the internet companies in Canada wanting to put a “meter” on your computer to limit the amount of internet you use and charge you extra when you go over. This will all be per GB and MB or what ever they do, much like a data plan on a cell phone. The other thing to note it that it currently costs the providers roughly a penny, to send 1 GB of data to the consumer. So unless they are charging a penny, I’m not content with that.
Visit http://openmedia.ca/ for more information and resources that will let you know how you can help stop it.
Ok, now that you are informed about what this is essentially. It’s opinion time!
Canada is already so far behind in cool internet technology, services like Netflix (http://www.netflix.ca/) that allow you to stream movies from the internet for a monthly fee. Are doing great in the United States, and have recently come to Canada. But because of different copyright laws and most importantly the current “internet caps” that the service providers are giving. Most people aren’t able to use this service without it costing more than it is worth. The same will go with any online movie service.
The internet is becoming more powerful with what applications you can use on the internet. Putting a cap on the internet will also put a larger cap on the technology we can use.
These are just a couple examples of how the internet and access to the cloud is becoming (and will become) the way to go. The internet IS the future, putting a cap and making the future less accessible is a silly idea. Canada is full of innovative people and the internet is a way to share, and sometimes discover, what they can do.
The internet is the future, it is innovation, it is a way to share, and it is a way to discover. Why would you want to limit and put a higher price on that?
termine, internet illimite! Mr Tony Clement en arriver a ce point-la il faut etre vraiment desesperer au parti Conservateur du Canada pour aller chercher plus dargent des Canadiens.Au contraire on devrait utiliser davantage ce service pour aider les petites entreprises au Canada a vendre leur produits.Eh oui les grosses entreprises de communications Bell et Cie ont trouver une nouvelle facon de faire plus dargent en passant par le CRTC.
This absolutely ridiculous we already pay for the internet and now they want to limit it unlimitless use.
Yeah I know eh! I am currently in the market for an ISP, and I’m not quite sure what to do just yet. This issue seems so up in the air, all I can really do I think is just keep looking around.
I am retired so I probably use my computer more than I should, especially in the winters.
I got a call from Rogers recently informing me that I was going over my limit of 60 gig per month and suggesting I increase to 80 gig for another ten bucks a month…. an introductory one year increase.
I was shocked that I had been paying Rogers an average of about twenty bucks a month in excess fees…… monthly deductions from my account….
And I learned from Rogers that my neighbours may have been using my account (WiFi) and that I ought to secure it…… first time I heard about that one….but hey, I did what they suggested…
And I also learned that anything that I look at on the net…. for example a video of Utube is regarded as a DOWNLOAD….. dig into it and you would be amazed at what constitutes a down load.
In the US of A, the average monthly max is 250 gig…. and here, we are subjected to maximums as low as 20gig and a premium plan is considered 80 gig.
The Government needs to exert some control over these providers.
Thank you for sharing, and I agree completely! That is one of my points, most of the public don’t really realize how much we depend on the internet and how much we use it. We just need to keep everyone informed, make sure that people are prepared to fight against it or know what to do if we have to end up living with it.
It really is too bad that the USA out technologies us so many times mostly for stupid reasons, we aren’t terrible at technology (we have RIM and Waterloo) just our economy and government seem to slow things down a bit and then we get less. But pay more.
[...] a Internet? Vogliono fare qui la stessa cosa ma conteggiato a consumo di dati, più usi più paghi! Una follia. Bell, l’incumbent canadese, grazie ad un altro organismo che controlla le telecomunicazioni [...]
Just like cell phones and everything people all over the world use every day we in Canada pay more for it. I believe our government is on the side of there big bussness friends. What is the perpose of the CRTC and how do I find out about who is in controll of it???????????
