Fellow Canadians, it has come to my attention that Bell, Rogers, Shaw and everyone else is about to be able to decide how they're going to charge us for how much internet we use.  What does this mean?  It means they're going to start charging us by the gigabyte instead of giving us our monthly usage.  Internet is going to be regressing back to the phone age where they charged by the minute.  You may think this doesn't affect you, but try watching a netflix movie or playing online and you'll see how quickly your bill rises.  We have to get into contact with our local MPs; email them, call them, send them letters, and let them know what's happening is against publich interest and affects everyone in Canada.  How did this happen?  The CRTC which was designed to protect its citizens from the wrath of these big companies are giving in, probably paid off by the big telecom companies.  This new per usage billing will effectively give Rogers and Bell a monopoly on internet.  They'll be able to nickle and dime us even more than before and they'll be able to nickle and dime the other companies that are forced to use their infastructor which will lead to a non-competitve rates by everyone.

Here's information on the CRTC and who are their executives:

 http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/INFO_SHT/G2.HTM

Here's a link to a site where you can find your MPs:

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx?Language=E

Get into contact with your local MPs and let them know that this per usage billing doesn't help the consumers but only helps the big corporations.

It's not strange to see this.. No way companies can survive with the rising bandwith usage and no price increase.. Phone operators are already doing it so it's not strange that internet service providers are also gonna do it... You want more service, pay for it...

This won't pass... if something like this could be done, then we'd have it here, in Israel, first. They rip us off for ANYTHING.

Isn't this a good thing? The huge surge in demand for bandwidth is causing major infrastructure problems for many ISPs, by doing this not only can they cap some of the demand, but also better target their investment into infrastructure.

Fellow Canadians...switch to Tekksavy for your ISP!

Seriously though, Bella nd Rogers can go suck it. They are the only players (one owns the phone lines and other cable lines) so they think they can bully the consumer.

The CRTC will directly effect Tekksavy. I don't believe affiliates like Tekk will be able to re-sell unlimited bandwidth.

Its very sad they are doing this, but bandwidth usage is increasing due to Netflix and YouTube among other things. This is why Net Neutrality isn't all its tracked up to be - treat every byte the same, and then they will charge according to simply how many bytes are being used.

Hopefully, these companies that may cap bandwidth will get smart and invest heavily into the infrastructure to increase the maximum thresholds. I hope TWC and others don't start doing this in the US :-

They're not doing this because of rising costs, they're doing this cause of other conflict of interests.  Bell is doing this cause they don't want the companies who they are wholesaling their lines to to undercut them, and Rogers doesn't want people to get rid of their T.V. services.

This is outrageous. you mention Bell and Rogers specifically. I am through Shaw hopefully they won't go this route. I will contact my local government soon to petition them. This is robbery I use the internet almost all day at least 6-10 hrs a day if you include X-Box Live and such.

I however bet that their will be packages availible for unlimited internet usage. They might just cost more then were used to paying. Either way I am upset. Arrrg maybe I should write Prime Minister Harper I have written Prime Ministers in the past. Somebodies going to hear my anger or maybe I should make it more a plea getting pissed off won't help.

With news like this who still thinks that digital distribution is the way to go? ;P

unlimited data cap lines will most likely be speed capped instead.

i.e. fast connection, limited data; slower connection unlimited data

Might also throw in a shaped/unshaped model into the mix too.

was bound to happen imo