I'm against this.. it's all about competition (or the lack of it) It
does seem awful suspicious that just days after Netflix announced
service to Canada, The big four announced reductions in Usage caps.
Canada is an Internet Ghetto. In Japan, you can get synchronous 100 Mbps
fiber to your house for 50 bucks a month. At my office we are paying
$1,500 for the same.
I could go on, but others have said enough to convince me, have a look
at these links:
Usage based billing - http://tinyurl.com/UBBExplained
More about CRTC - http://tinyurl.com/WakeUpCanada
Petition to stop UBB - http://openmedia.ca/meter
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/fbtqa/well_reddit_my_weekend_just_turned_to_shit_im/c1erwdp
cheers.
On 11-01-28 03:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
A question I have for you is why you need that kind of bandwidth and how can it
be delivered? Can it be delivered via WiFi? Can it be broadcast?
Most of the population is happy with DSL speeds and I'm one of them. About all
I would like to see is IPTV but this is a poor use of bandwidth but then once
the wires are in we should pay for the MAINTENENCE of the wires and not the USE
of the wires. Internet cables are not like water pipes!
As I see it the services a company like Telus should provide is hanging the
wires and fixing them. But then I happen to have an account at Anixiter and
they do happen to sell both copper communications cables as well as fiber
communications cables. At this time fiber is so cheap there is no reason WHAT
SO EVER to use copper! Bandwidth on fiber is basically unlimited!
its not that the technology so not exist or that it is not affordable... the
problem is we arn't allowed to use it and we are the ones who paid for it in
the first place! So Telus just sits there and gouges where they can while they
can!
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:12:39PM -0700, Gustin Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:22 PM,<[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
Yes - nucleus resells Telus lines. So does Rogers. We Albertans put in those
plines and we paid for them all via AGT. Telus inherited them in a sweetheart
deal. The part of Telus that handles the lines IMHO is pretty good ... in many
cases far better than ontehr companies. But the other parts stink.
I have had pretty good experience with this part of telus in the past.
I don't know about Nucleus web hosting. I just have no complaints and no - I
do not work for them and at this time I am not one of their representatives.
That aspect of Nucleus is pretty bad. I do not personally use any ISP
hosted services (DNS, Web,Mail, etc...) as this allows me to switch
relatively pain free from one ISP to another. Of course the wife is
tied to Shaw so they get me in the end :)
The real problem I have is that there is no competition. Neither
Telus nor Nucleus (or Tech Savvy for that matter) can come close to
the performance of the cable modem that I have. I would like to at
least try another ISP (heck, I would like to have two or more pipes
servicing my house) but none of the DSL or wireless providers here can
touch the 15 mbit *real world* performance. 15 mbit is not even the
top end of what Shaw can provide. We need to find a way for other
ISPs to provide that kind of bandwidth.
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