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> Von: out in the sticks cultural association <[email protected]> > Datum: 28. Januar 2011 22:14:18 MEZ > An: undisclosed-recipients:; > Betreff: special issue of OSCA newsletter - citizens action needed > Antwort an: [email protected] > > Urgent - they want to rip us all off! Let's protest! > The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) says > telecommunications companies will be permitted to charge third-party Internet > service providers for usage-based billing, effective March 31st, 2011. At the > moment the big providers like Bell and Rogers charge you when you excess > certain limit of data downloaded, but many small providers charge a flat rate > and set no limits on downloads. They will have to change it after March 31st > and from now on everybody will have to pay penalties when they exceed certain > limit of bites. If you think that this decision will only affect some users, > you are wrong. It will affect all of us, even those who do not use internet > at all. > First of all it will affect the small internet providers and probably > eliminate some of them from the market at all, which means less choice for > the consumers, which is always bad. Then, those who survive, will be less > competitive for Bell and Rogers, so Bell and Rogers will be able to dictate > higher prices and smaller data limits for everybody. This will affect again > all the internet consumers. Do not imagine they will charge you less when you > use the internet less. They will charge you the same, or more then they do > now. The only thing that will change is that some people will pay much more > than they used to. So the whole idea is beneficial only to Bell and Rogers, > not to their clients or anybody else. Bell and Rogers have already been > making billions of dollars every year and now they want to make more, at the > expense of our society and the economy of whole the country. You want to know > how it affects the economy and the society? Read the PDF document attached. > > 1. You can sign a protest letter here: > http://openmedia.ca/stand-up-for-your-communication-rights#campaigns or on > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/openmedia.ca > 2. You can forward this message to EVERYBODY on your MAILING LIST. > 3. You can copy this message or write down your own protest and send it to > your MP. > 4. You can print out this message or write down and print your own protest > and send it to: > CRTC > Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission > Ottawa, Ontario > Canada, K1A 0N2 > 5. You can find other ways to spread the word: your Facebook, Myspace, > Twitter, blog, etc., talking to your family, neigbours and collegues, writing > to your local newspaper or calling your local radio station. Every method is > good - we need to make it a subject of a public debate and protest, this is > the only way. > > Please don't wait and act now! The clock is ticking!. > > -- > Anna Szczepaniec > Out in the Sticks Cultural Association Inc. > P.O. Box 174, 2838 County Road 6, Yarker, ON, K0K 3N0 > phone: 613 877 4532 > e-mail: [email protected] > web: http://www.outinthesticks.ca
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