Weep for Canadian DSL service in Canada (it dies in March)

[Splych]

Seeing how Bell themselves are a bad company, I'm honestly not surprised by this then. They overcharge their customers on anything and everything, and the reasoning behind this is just as ridiculous. I'll just keep my fingers crossed and hope that Shaw doesn't get tied into this as well.

surprisingly , their phone plans aren't that bad compared to others .
xD .

as a teenager , i know that txting is used a lot , and an unlimited txting plan is only $20 with Bell while other companies charge at least $25 .

 

[ShadowSoldier]

How you can call 60 gigs great escapes me. I am (until March 1st) getting 400 gigs a month. Still think 60 is awesome?

Because we're only paying... $40-$45 bucks a month, and its more than what I need? I don't go download crazy and download every thing I see. I only download some tv shows that come on weekly, and movies, and DS games. So yeah, 60 gigs a month with 15mbps download for the price we're paying, I'm happy.

Also, provide a source, link. Don't make the people go looking for it. I'm on the website, I see nothing. Give link or I call bullshit..

 

[prowler]

If you go to /r/canada they are doing some shit to try and stop this.

I realllllllllllllly hope this doesn't happen since it could progress onto USA or even the UK.

edit: http://www.antiubb.com/what-can-i-do/

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Eh, just read one of those links... the CBC one.

Doesn't affect me. Bell isn't getting any money from me for one reason:

Where I live, Bell doesn't offer internet. Only Shaw does. And Shaw has superior service and download than Bell.

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

I feel for you in Aus, but sorry, I'd rather not join you in having shitty internet and weird content laws.

I like saying Canada is a great country. I wonder what ole Alexander would say about what is being done to his name.

Bell is not everywhere, true, but the CRTC is and you can bet everyone and his aunt in Canada is watching this, and the biggie providers are taking notes.

This is the CRTC proving they can't be trusted to protect squat.

I might be losing out on some service, but, this could well mean the life and death of a lot of businesses and their employees.

If I say screw it and turf having internet at all, it's going to be taking a lot of coin out of a lot of pockets.

I have a laptop, I can always score me some free wifi hot spot action if I desperately need it. Then again, I can see a lot of convenient free wifi maybe disappearing.

 

[Maz7006]

256kb/s - 3GB cap - 40$ USD

Fuck you Lebanon, FUCK you.

... just saying.

 

[hankchill]

Since Bell controls our DSL lines here, all the companies that piggyback off their DSL (such as Acanac and Teksavvy) will eventually be forced to comply with this bullshit.

I made the switch to Cable this month. Rogers gives me 80Mbit and 175GB for $99, and they don't even offer 80Mbit services -- it just so happens that my area just got upgraded so I get insane speeds. Although I use a hell of a lot more than 175GB per month, I'll need to cut things down and use only what really matters.

When I first heard of UBB last year, since my bandwidth was unlimited I went and did as much as I could in terms of downloading... 24 hours a day for 30 days, I snagged almost 2TB of data

 

[yewbowguy]

sign the petition here: http://openmedia.ca/meter
and spread the word.
stop this retarded shit.

 

[deka01]

welcome to australia without the sun

 

[thaddius]

Weep? C'mon. Bell owns the infrastructure. They friggin' built it. They should be allowed to have a say in the way it's used.

Also, this in an interesting example:

Under the plan, Bell will charge wholesale ISPs a flat fee for connecting to its network, and for a set monthly usage limit per customer. Beyond that set limit, users will be charged per gigabyte, depending on the speed of their connections.

Customers using the fastest connections of five-megabits per second, for example, will have a monthly allotment of 60 gigabytes, beyond which Bell will charge $1.12 per GB to a maximum of $22.50.

If a customer uses more than 300 GB a month, Bell will also be able to implement an additional charge of 75 cents per gigabyte.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/05...l#ixzz1Cd3kwAGO

 

[Splych]

When I first heard of UBB last year, since my bandwidth was unlimited I went and did as much as I could in terms of downloading... 24 hours a day for 30 days, I snagged almost 2TB of data

holy that's crazy .
though i don't see much things i need to download anymore ... unless new versions of the stuff on my computer will get released . once they do, i usually download them , then just store them just incase i need it or if a tutorial uses that version over the older ones.

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

Weep? C'mon. Bell owns the infrastructure. They friggin' built it. They should be allowed to have a say in the way it's used.

Also, this in an interesting example:

Under the plan, Bell will charge wholesale ISPs a flat fee for connecting to its network, and for a set monthly usage limit per customer. Beyond that set limit, users will be charged per gigabyte, depending on the speed of their connections.

Customers using the fastest connections of five-megabits per second, for example, will have a monthly allotment of 60 gigabytes, beyond which Bell will charge $1.12 per GB to a maximum of $22.50.

If a customer uses more than 300 GB a month, Bell will also be able to implement an additional charge of 75 cents per gigabyte.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/05...l#ixzz1Cd3kwAGO

"Bell owns the infrastructure. They friggin' built it. They should be allowed to have a say in the way it's used." It's time we took this public utility back and made it the property of the nation.

 

[Stevetry]

LOL you guy and your limits is good to be UNLIMITED

 

[Ferrariman]

http://snpr.cm/doK I'm so f'd

 

[prowler]

LOL you guy and your limits is good to be UNLIMITED

Just wait until this gets implemented in other countries.
It's all about the money and the Internet is where the money is at.

 

[bowlofspiders]

This would suck if it were implemented where I live. The only service I can get here IS DSL.

 

[Deleted_171835]

What the fuck!
25 GB is extremely low. I would never be able to last a month with only 25 GB. I'm glad I use cable internet and not DSL. I currently get 60GB with Rogers Express. It's horrible but if I want more I'll have to pay more. I guess I won't be able to switch to TekSavvy. anymore. There wouldn't be much point to switching to an internet connection with a 25GB cap.

 

[Midna]

Sorry CRTC, I'm on cable.

 

[Stevetry]

LOL you guy and your limits is good to be UNLIMITED

Just wait until this gets implemented in other countries.
It's all about the money and the Internet is where the money is at.

yea right that would never happen here

 

[CarbonX13]

Seeing how Bell themselves are a bad company, I'm honestly not surprised by this then. They overcharge their customers on anything and everything, and the reasoning behind this is just as ridiculous. I'll just keep my fingers crossed and hope that Shaw doesn't get tied into this as well.

surprisingly , their phone plans aren't that bad compared to others .
xD .

as a teenager , i know that txting is used a lot , and an unlimited txting plan is only $20 with Bell while other companies charge at least $25 .

As a teenager myself as well, Bell has been overcharging my friends on every aspect of a cell phone plan in comparison to Rogers, Telus, and Fido. Then again, me and my friends don't text a lot, it's more about some text, and a set number of minutes. I don't think it varies per region, but Bell hardly has any impact on the phone market here in Vancouver, since everyone here at least considers them a bad company that overcharges you. Phones, Internet, anything really.