http://www.ndp.ca/ubb-twitter-rally
On 11-02-01 09:54 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Really its just as cheap here. The overhead cable is about the same per meter:
Fibre/copper: Take your pick. The interfaces are cheap and one time charges.
We should pay the lineman for the maintenence of the lines and do the rest
ourselves... possible a coop organisation like Federated COOP. Or put the CO
operations up for tender.
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 09:50:57PM -0500, Jesse Kline wrote:
I'd love to see a comparative analysis of the Canadian and Japanese markets.
Is it cheaper in Japan because of the high density, large population, and
small area? Is it more competition? Government subsidies?
Jesse
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Robert Toole<[email protected]> wrote:
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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