Comments on news posted 2011-02-02 10:49:07: You'll recall that when Time Warner Cable tried to impose low caps and high per gigabyte overages here in the States, they proclaimed the move was financially necessary because flat-rate broadband pricing wasn't sustainable. ..
Second the data plans, to expect us to buy these to replace usage you just took away from packages with already pathetic caps is exactly what bell/rogers pulls and that is unacceptable. As for the rates on them 10 GB at$5/month, 50 cents for 1-2cents cost 60 GB for $20/month, 30 cents for 1-2 cents cost 250 GB for $50/month 20 cents for something that cost 1-2 cents
No matter how you look at it there is a 2000-5000% markup. Of course this is assuming you want to go threw the utter and total hassle of watching your usage and call shaw and wasting ones time! At overage costs the markup is 10000-20000% how can that be justified.
If this was real UBB we would A) get a refund for under usage B) have roll over limits each month since very gig is magically more valuable due to artificial limits imposed by our fail telecoms. C)Be charged 2-5 times the cost and no more if this is about recouping losses which it is clearly not. D)Have an acceptable limit like in the USA or any country in the developing world if they can have unlimited we can have 250 gigs like Comcast the only ISP that enforces such limits with a soft cap(throttling after you go past your limit) F) Understand that just because some people do not use the internet or work most of the time etc etc that basing our usage on their usage is utterly and totally silly. G)Do not go about lowering usage limits as you please just because bell/rogers get away with it.
Please exam the real costs and the pathetic limits you feel are justifiable. * Light Speed – 15GB per month cost 15-30 cents * High Speed – 60GB per month cost .60-1.20$ * Extreme – 100GB per month cost 1-2$ * Warp – 175GB per month cost 1.75-3.50$ * Nitro – 350GB per month cost 3.50-7$
Of course this is assuming you use all of our pathetic allotments. Yet the cost of a 10 gig data pack costs more then everything except maybe in some cases nitro.
Lite 13GB -> 15GB ($2/GB overages) shaw added 2-4 cents to this package how nice so worth the 20000% markup fee on gigabytes.
High Speed 75GB ->60GB ($2/GB overages) shaw took 15-30 cents of the cost to provide these, and buying the data plans to make it up will cost 5-10$ or 15$ without worrying about hassle overage fees
Xtreme 125GB -> 100GB ($1/GB overages) Shaw took of 25-50 cents worth of usage at their costs and then expects us to pay 10-15 dollars for data packs to make up what they blatantly took away. Or 25 dollars in overage fees.
Warp 250GB -> 175GB ($1/GB overages) .75-1.5 $ worth of usage removed at their costs Extra 20$ for the data plan to compensate what shaw is nice enough to adjust down for our down good or 75$ in overage costs.
Nitro 500GB -> 350GB ($1/GB overages) Cost savings to shaw for the nerf to usage is 1.50-3 dollars Price of the closest data pack to compensate is 50$
Now factor in the rate increase on just internet which will be 2$ which can buy 100-200 gigs at an ISP's cost then explain how we are not more then paying enough already let alone should be charged such outrageous fees when shaw/bell/rogers are allowed to roll down our usage as you please.
And using Shaw's old monitoring tool that was highly inaccurate basing future growing rates on such stats is not justifiable.
Needs are going to continue increasing and enforcing artificial limits at such rates just because clueless Canadian's will accept it is criminal. Such overage fees are not the solution anywhere else in the world why should they be here? »www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/co···_WP.html
The math is fail no matter how one looks at it
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