Rogers Cable Plans Fees to Curb Bandwith Hogs

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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Can't have it both ways

[leereyno]

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