herbie herbie:
The problem with Canadian ISPs is they have BUY their pipes from the OLD BOYS and they are data circuits. They aren't fully deregulated.
So if they have to pay for bandwidth, so do you.
The Yanks still have hundreds of startups that are giving away the farm to get customers and if they are, the main players are too to keep their customer base.
Here they almost all gave away the farm and went bye-bye. Either failed or got gobbled up (and that's what's going on in the USA too).
You don't GET unlimited bandwidth usage from anyone. Telus, Bell and Shaw will eventually call you on your usage and if you upgrade to their most expensive (server) package, they'll leave you alone. And you most certainly don't get unrestricted bandwidth usage from a goddam satellite provider. That's the most expensive way to get bandwidth there is! You get satellite internet when there's no fucking alternative, and that's the only reason.
Same goes for Rocketsticks and cell-based shit. If you're a sales guy and travel and you write it off, it's a valuable asset. If you wanna watch streaming movies on your iPhone and shell out $100 a month you're a moron.
Home users have been piggybacking on the cash cow that is business service since day one, for landline phones, long distance and Internet. Any idea how many offices and schools try to piggyback 30-100 users on ONE DSL pipe? And tie up lines whining that their Net is slow?
I'm in the business, ppl. You know how many whiners I get about speed/usage limits/slowdowns I get from shitheads who are behind in their $30 a month payments and costing me $150-$500 a month for their use? Lots.
How many managers braying how they got better service form Shaw in their Toronto apartment and are so thick they can't look out the window and realize they're now 500 miles in the middle of the fucking bush and should be lucky they're not on dialup? That think their shit don't stink but they can't even drag and fucking drop or cut and fucking paste or read the fucking email header and Google why their fucking e-mail bounced?
Or how many times we roll a truck and find the shithead's got 20 open LimeWire upload ports running and so do 4 kids on the same router and he's so stupid he insists that that should still work full speed? Or think Speedtest.net in Vancouver is an indication of ONLY his segment of the line?
Fer fuck's sakes I'd be 100% on your side if they rolled out fiber to every street corner in every small town in the country and stopped ALL usage billing for EVERYONE including the ISPs. But that isn't gonna happen when the Carrier Boardrooms OWN the goddam Tories and Liberals lock stock and barrel.
Until then enjoy the ride, cuz you are gonna see usage charges on everything, filtering, and multi-tiered services unless things change big time. Google pages will load quick because they're a billion dollar customer but CKA will crawl. Hosting costs will skyrocket. You'll pay $1.00 to get an episode of Lost and pay again for downloading it. You'll see music and movie downloaders busted, just like in the US too.
Get the point? You want free enterprise, you live with the results. If it costs us ISPs, the cost is gonna get passed on to you. If there's stockholders they're gonna want ISPs to charge for everything they can. Sometimes you'll get a Blue Light Special when one tries to steal away subscribers, but those don't determine the market price, and they don't go on forever!
Your problems are your own, if we as customers feel we pay to much and we also feel that companies are screwing us around then we walk with our feet and our wallets
It's up to you to come to us, not the other way around
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