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Rogers Cable Plans Fees to Curb Bandwith Hogs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the play-more-pay-more dept.

jeremyd writes: "Major Canadian broadband provider plans to charge heavy users higher monthly access fees as high as $80 per month. Read the article here from the Globe and Mail. If only the world would protest. What's the point of high speed broadband access if you can't use it to full potential without having to start selling organs to pay the bills?"

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  1. Tactics like this... by marcsiry · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...are going to drive bandwidth collectives.

    You already share bandwidth with a whole mess of people in your neighborhood... you just don't know them, and that's why the cable co's can screw you all.

    All it takes is some knowledgable people to form community ISPs, lease a fat pipe and redistribute the bandwidth via the most convenient method (802.11?) When the need to make a profit is removed from the cost of being an ISP, the price per user can come down quite a bit... hopefully the cable co's will start to feel some of the pricing pressure they thought they escaped when they killed the competition.

    Sure, easier said than done, but hatred of getting screwed is a strong motivator...

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  2. Re:Kudos to Rogers. by Malc · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I'm not sure what speed Rogers is offering, but say its 512Kbps"...

    It's a damn sight more than that: try 3Mbs/400Kbs. Of course, when I tried them, I only saw 200+KBs at 4am.

  3. Re:Users will bend over, Videotron example by delysid-x · · Score: 0, Troll

    Videotron users are the AOLers of Canada.

  4. Can't have it both ways by leereyno · · Score: 2, Troll

    Wasn't there an article on here a week or two ago about how some cable companies are trying to thwart users who set up in house lans and do NAT? The main sentiment I heard in response to that article was that the cable companies should simply charge people according to the bandwidth they use. Now we hear of a cable company doing just that and I hear a bunch of bitching. I'm sorry folks, but you can't have it both ways. These companies are in business to make money. I get annoyed when I see price gouging and greed, but that isn't what this sounds like. If it is then that means that high profit margins will encourage the entry of competitors into the market, at which point competition will drive the prices back down again.

    Lee

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  5. Re:Stop downloading stuff you don't need. by CokeBear · · Score: 1, Troll

    You sir, are an asshole.
    Its because of people like you that this planet sucks.

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