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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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 Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:56 pm Post subject: Usage-Based Billing Hits Canada |
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I'm not Canadian, but the last thing we need is for something like this to start a domino effect. So, all Canadians who read this can do something about it by signing the Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use petition
http://openmedia.ca/meter
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| O, Canada, what have you done? The country�s Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the CRTC, has passed sweeping new regulations that will force Internet Service Providers to switch to so-called usage-based billing�metered pricing, in less flowery language. That means ISPs there will charge customers by the gigabyte for Internet access, and that�s on top of a flat service fee. There�s nothing particularly new about metered pricing, but the fact that it�s being implemented on a country-wide basis surely merits a quick discussion. |
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tatertot
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| To ISPs: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!! |
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toonchoon
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:46 am Post subject: |
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The USA is not too far behind in this.
To be honest, I can't believe this is happening, especially in advanced countries such as Canada and the USA. While they're talking about free countrywide wireless internet in Korea, they're heading in the opposite direction in North America. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| Just as Netflix is trying to switch to get everyone streaming and stop mailing DVDs. That's only one example I can think of, but I think there are some fairly large companies that would resist this in America. |
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archmagos
Joined: 14 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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Australian ISPs have had fairly draconian quotas for ages.
It has started to improve a bit of late (100GB/month at $50) although this certainly doesn't make it popular (or legal if you have been silly enough to believe an Australian ISP claiming to have an unlimited connection with a quota hidden away as small print)! |
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Boffo97
Joined: 08 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure how any legislator can vote on something like this without it being career suicide.
Something like this is going to annoy a great many people and benefit... well, really no one.
It might have some effect on illegal downloading, but there are a lot of legitimate uses of the Internet that consume high bandwidth... Netflix Streaming for one example brought up in this thread. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:19 am Post subject: |
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From the petitions that have already been gathered, it looks like the house of commons may overrule the CRTC and kill it anyway.
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