This has been making the rounds on other lists, for those that have not seen it yet, here it is: -- As most of you must already be aware, the CRTC issued about a week ago a ruling in favour of Usage Based Billing (UBB) which will change the Internet landscape in Canada for the worst. Bell, Rogers will now impose UBB to all resellers. This will kill the little competition we have and make sure Bell and Rogers don't have to follow the technology with their network, but impose their network on the technology. Remember that their network was *heavily* subsidized by the federal and provincial governments! Moreover, the UBB ruling declares that the bandwidth caps are different across provinces!! That's right, Ontarians will only get 25Gb/mo while Quebecers get 60Gb/mo. This hardly seem fair for canadians. In the light of putting things in perspective, resellers of DSL service already pay 20$/mo for the DSL line 5Mbps, slower than Bel's service, much slower than what 20$ gets you in Europe. More over, you will still have to pay 8$ to Ma Bell for the copper line. Almost 30$ of your monthly internet fees _already goes in Ma Bell's pocket_ even if you are not their client!
The CRTC has already ignored countless letters from the public, to PMs and a petition with nearly 250 000 signatures to this date! It's time to take it to the streets! A peaceful demonstration will happen this Saturday, February 5 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm @ Dorchester Square. Be there early! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174967459212532 tl;dr: Anti-UBB Demonstration Time Saturday, February 5 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm Location Dorchester Square, Montreal This affects _*YOU*_ it affects _*US*_ it affects your mom too, really! I really expect foulabers to join in large number AND BRING FRIENDS. If they see who's in the streets, the people who manage their banks, who make their systems run, who give them their entertainment, the 21st century truck drivers and tube builders, maybe then will they listen! Murf On behalf of all Canadian Netizens -- On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 11:09 -0500, Le Berger wrote: > Le CRTC vient de décider que votre fournisseur d'accès Internet peut > mettre un compteur sur Internet! > > C'est le temps de voter .... pour quelque chose de concret > > http://openmedia.ca/compteur > > ----- > > Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are about to impose usage-based > billing on YOU. > > It's time to vote ... for the real things > > http://openmedia.ca/meter > > > ----- Newspaper article > > http://technaute.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles/internet/201102/02/01-4366131-les-inte > rnautes-canadiens-ont-decide-quils-ont-assez-paye.php > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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