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Bell Canada has lost its way some time ago. It started with the idea of a 'vertically integrated market' ( https://openmedia.ca/blog/fina... ) , then it got a spanking from the CRTC about download exemptions (see http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2... ) quickly followed by not being allowed to keep the plan in place during the trial ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com... ). Slip in a CRTC decision to unbundle TV channels, aka “pick-and-pay”, and Bell Media President puts his foot in it, by 'Meddling' in News Coverage ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com... ). Now it's a 'Privacy' problem for all those vertically integrated customers. Draw your own conclusions about who is to blame, but my money is on an entirely clueless Management Team.

We don't force you guys to do business in Canada but if you're going to do it you have to play by our rules. Honestly, all the previous posters claiming the CRTC was toothless and all about supporting monopolies are so wrong, they usually get their way and most of the recent changes they forced have been in customers favor. Example:

CRTC wireless code comes into force: Canadians can cancel their contracts without penalty after two years : http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/com1... Slapping down internet throttling by ISP and net neutrality violators: https://openmedia.ca/news/bell... etc.

Would you have a list or know some of those? It might be something relevant for TFS.

Not off the top of my head, but I do remember Brazil, and Germany making some changes. Canada is doing something similar via pipeda this as well Where the law doesn't cover it, companies are doing it on their own including avoiding routing through the US. For online in Canada see openmedia's bit. Individual ISP's as well have been replying on what they give/send/comply/refuse to do, this is Teksavvy's response.

No he's just got the loudest mouth. We have CIPPIC, Openmedia and there's also JF Mezei

I registered with them and, every year that I get paid, I funnel the money to a copyfighting cause. Check out OpenMedia.ca for one such great option! Plus I write them regular letters as a member, haranguing the board and denouncing their policies.

Registered or not, they're still collecting money 'on my behalf' that only goes to fill their warchest. AC levies a fee on every bit of media that they can count being loaned, copied and read in schools and on campuses, caring not who's the author until you register with them and force them to cough up a share of the funds.

They're collecting money based off of my writing, your writing, everyone's writing: Canadians and other citizens! They'll pay out if you register, though and I figure that hurts them at least a little bit which works to our advantage.

The proposed lawful access legislation that will give law enforcement sweeping new powers, put a tremendous strain on smaller ISPs, and put all Canadians at risk of inappropriate and unnecessary surveillance. This 1984-like legislation is something that has been in the works in one form or another since 1999. It seeks to add far more warrantless Internet surveillance options for law enforcement officers. While I very much respect and support our fine police men and women, the information that the proposed bill will grant, without warrant or or oversight, should concern all privacy-loving citizens. Ontario’s fantastic privacy commissioner, Ann Cavoukian, outlines her concerns eloquently in an interview with Search Engine’s Jesse Brown:
http://searchengine.tvo.org/blog

Anyone interested, and we should all be interested, should read up on the details, listen to what others are saying, and let your MP know how you feel about this potential invasion of our privacy. If you feel strongly about this, you may also want to fill out the Open Media petition.

http://www.realprivacy.ca/write-my-mp
http://openmedia.ca/StopSpying

The Internet is what we make it. We should all be active participants.

This may be close to your last chance to be an anonymous coward, so sign the petition at openmedia,
http://openmedia.ca/StopSpying

And don't forget to donate as well

http://www.openmedia.ca/

They have done a pretty decent job of getting the word out about the Telecom's and Big Media's attempts to shape Canada to be another of their bitches.

Like more than 400,000 other people, I signed the online petition hosted by openmedia.ca. I have now been opted in to receiving e-mails on this topic from the Liberal Party of Canada. In looking back at the online petition, I now see there is no privacy statement or agreement not to share my e-mail address.

Although I have no proof, I strongly suspect that openmedia.ca shared my e-mail address with the Liberal party. Frankly, I feel duped, given that openmedia.ca touts itself as nonpartisan.

As a Canadian and as someone who signed the: Petition, I am thrilled to see this reversal! Bandwidth while having a huge upfront cost is almost negligible in costs after that. When it costs a penny a gigabyte on the wire there is absolutely no reason to be charging near-two dollars for it! What we ultimately need is a country-wide backbone that is operated as a non-profit and allows anyone to sub-let it!

Who are you using? I've lived in three major Canadian cities and never had trouble finding an ISP with unlimited bandwidth. Hell, even when Shaw had a 20GB limit back in 2000 they only got mad when I downloaded about 250GB in a month. No extra fees, just a sternly worded letter.

It doesn't matter anymore. January 25th the CRTC screwed us. Their ruling sets a standard that applies across all DSL resellers. Bell paid for this ruling, and it applies to anyone who is connected to a Bell DSLAM. (That is... everyone except customers of MNSi here in Windsor. MNSi has their own DSLAMs in four COs.)

This applies to dry-loop customers as well. It doesn't currently apply to business customers, although what I've been seeing is that a 300G per month cap has been placed on Business DSL customers. Given 5Mbps service allows download of a good 1.5TB or so of data, being allowed to use 20% of your available ability kind of sucks.

Currently this doesn't apply to cable Internet service. Expect Shaw, Rogers and their kin to petition the CRTC for similar rules regarding 3rd-party ISPs on their network. It's probably only a few months before this applies to cable as well, potentially with different specific numbers.

Final detail... we're talking Ontario and Quebec at the moment.

Here's some info.
http://openmedia.ca/meter
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-44.htm