Rogers Shrinks Download Limits As Netflix Arrives

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 24, 2010 @05:26AM from the not-very-canuckian-of-them dept.

Meshach writes "Hot on the heels of Netflix coming to Canada, Rogers (one of the biggest ISPs in Canada) has shrunk download limits. 'As of Wednesday, new customers who sign up for the Lite service will be allowed 15 gigabytes, a drop from the 25 GB limit offered to those who signed up before July 21. Meanwhile, any new Lite user who goes over the monthly limit will have to pay $4 per GB up to a maximum of $50 — a spike from the previous $2.5 per GB surcharge.' Officially, there is no connection between the two events, but it seems an odd coincidence, especially when Rogers charges customers who exceed their bandwidth allowance."

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Re:You Know by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-24 06:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And your incorrect spelling of the word "centre" clearly proves that you're a Yankee and not a Canadian at all!
Re:You Know by Totenglocke · 2010-07-24 07:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They have a geographical monopoly across virtually all of Canada.
Impossible! I know for a fact from all my years of reading Slashdot that monopolies and companies raising prices only happen in America!

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