200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet

jmke · 1st February 2011, 19:39

Metered Internet usage (also called "Usage-Based Billing") is coming to Canada, and it's going to cost Internet users. While an advance guard of Canadians are expressing creative outrage at the prospect of having to pay inflated prices for Internet use charged by the gigabyte, the consequences probably haven't set in for most consumers. Now, however, independent Canadian ISPs are publishing their revised data plans, and they aren't pretty.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...camp aign=rss

jmke · 1st February 2011, 19:40

We started off in 2007 with a limit of 300Mb/month on a 1.5Mbit cable connection.

1st February 2011, 19:39	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet Metered Internet usage (also called "Usage-Based Billing") is coming to Canada, and it's going to cost Internet users. While an advance guard of Canadians are expressing creative outrage at the prospect of having to pay inflated prices for Internet use charged by the gigabyte, the consequences probably haven't set in for most consumers. Now, however, independent Canadian ISPs are publishing their revised data plans, and they aren't pretty. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...camp aign=rss __________________

1st February 2011, 19:40	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	We started off in 2007 with a limit of 300Mb/month on a 1.5Mbit cable connection. __________________

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