Deadpool
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Re: Self Monitoring?
Yes, there is a bandwidth tracker.
This also only affects NEW customers as of December 3rd.
So instead of ISP's in Canada doing like the US and arguing net neutrality and wanting to pass the bandwidth costs to the content providers, they're passing on the cost to the content downloaders.
(Although one Quebec ISP, Videotron, has brought up the net neutrality issue...but they're the only one's, and they also have bandwidth caps).
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b10010011
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Bellingham, WA | So they have pre-passed the cost onto the user.
I am sure they will also be charging the content providers for access too sooner or later.
If they get away with it American companies will soon follow. |
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Deadpool
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Canada | I believe it should be one or the other, not both. Shouldn't double-dip!
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adisor19
join:2004-10-11 | reply to Deadpool
However, you forgot to mention that Videotron'n Extreme tier of 10/1 has UNLIMITED bandwith. I often break 40GB per week 
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TKJunkMail
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A pay per byte model makes sense after some basic amount of included bandwidth. No net neutrality issues. The bandwidth hogs will fund the expansion of the infrastructure.
Of course, many here say this model will never happen. Looks like this may only be the beginning. This model may move to the US sooner rather than later.
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They will strangle in their own juices with a pay per byte model. Customers are not going to like the idea in the long run, especially with caps like 1 GB and $10 per gig over (which is nothing but a ripoff. Note the WIDE difference in overage fees.) They're crazy and it would never work here, especially with video, etc on the horizon. |
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TKJunkMail
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| said by Fatal Vector  : They're crazy and it would never work here, especially with video, etc on the horizon. Video is what will force the pay per byte model in the US.
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Deadpool
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| reply to Fatal Vector
The vast majority of their customers sign up for the HSE and Ultra services, which have a cap of 30 GB and 45 GB respectively and a price of $1.50 per GB after that.
What's not mentioned is that the max price charged for going over the cap is $30.
So whether you download 30 GB or 100 GB over the cap, you would pay $30 bucks in either scenario.
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abadon
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Deadpool said:
"(Although one Quebec ISP, Videotron, has brought up the net neutrality issue...but they're the only one's, and they also have bandwidth caps)."
Videotrons 10-meg cable does NOT have caps. You know this.
Bell-Sympatico 10-meg DSL is a 50-gig cap.
Bell-Synpatico 16-meg DSL is 75-gig cap
Bell Sympatico Ultra "upto" 5-meg DSL is a 45-gig cap
Regular "upto" 5-meg DSL is a 30-gig cap
And we all know "upto" means you have to live pretty close to the Central Office to get the full 5-meg DSL. Majority of users have 2 to 3 meg DSL. |
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