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CRTC Approves Usage Based Billing In Canada
qvatch writes with this from CBC News: "The CRTC has approved Bell Canada's request to bill Internet customers, both retail and wholesale, based on how much they download each month. The plan, known as usage-based billing, will apply to people who buy their Internet connection from Bell, or from smaller service providers that rent lines from the company, such as Teksavvy or Acanac. ... 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."
Canada is the only democratic country which has an organization whose mandate is to control what people see, hear and read. The CRTC is an affront to freedom and democracy and needs to be disbanded.
No, you didn't get it. It's going up by $22.50 per month for the (insert small percentage of customers here) that use >300GB per month of transfer.
I know it makes you feel good to assume that everybody else is stupid, except for you of course. But let me burst that diahrrhea bubble of yours and explain to you what happened there in that post to which you are responding. You see, he realizes that the $22.50 applies to people who use more than 300GB/month of transfer. He is saying that this is an arbitrarily low limit that is very easy to reach within a month's time, so their customers can all expect to end up paying it. In case that confuses you, or makes you feel smart for objecting to the word "all", I'll explain further: "all" as used here is an example of hyperbole. It is a deliberate exaggeration that is nonetheless fairly accurate.
Do you see now how regurgitating the summary in order to feel smarter than someone else by convincing yourself that they didn't "get it" contributed nothing to the conversation? You do see that, right?
OS. Now BSDI is was what got me `right now. I tried, Dim. If *BSD is Wall: *BSD faces a GNAA and support this mistake or Are there? Let's non-fucking-existant.
I say, you are quite the chatty douche bag, aren't you? That's not a deliberate exaggeration and yet is nonetheless extremely accurate. See how your douche baggery contributed nothing to the conversation? In case that confuses you, or makes you feel smarter than someone else, you're still a douche bag. You do see that, right?
How original. Tell me, did you get that style from someplace? Ah well, your inability to take a correction and the sad attempt at mockery that it led to gave me a laugh. Obviously you think I randomly responded to you just to pick on you and don't want to look at how your own actions directly inspired the response you got. That's weak, pathetic, and unbecoming. Oh and by the way, you can post AC but your username isn't too hard to figure out. Hmmmm, let's see, I wonder what person participating in this discussion would have had a egotistical reason to get offended at my post...
A friend works at a local ISP and he tells me that 0.1% of the customers use as much bandwidth as I do. That's a very tiny percentage.
Ever heard of TV streaming? It's here, and it's cool. You don't have to be a techno-nerd to use a lot of bandwidth. I've got netflix streaming, and it chews up about 900 megabytes/hour. Even "Grandma" might want when her son buys her a cheap streaming device for Christmas. This internet thing isn't going away, and bandwith usage will only increase rather quickly. Your 30 gigabytes/month will look like 640k of memory in about 10 years.
Bandwidth is a finite resource, even if we don't believe it.
Bandwidth is an ever expanding resource. It's finite in the same sense that processing power is finite. Someday the increase will be over, but that's unlikely to happen for quite some time.
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Bandwidth is an ever-expanding resource, but someone has to pay for the expansion, and the extra operating costs.
Once upon a time, flat rate pricing was economically viable, in densely populated nations at any rate. Perhaps it will be again one day, if the cost of bandwidth falls enough. Right now, I don't believe it is.
Come back when you can understand concepts such as broadcast and point-to-point