Comments on: Canada Forces Pay-by-the-Byte Metered Internet on Unhappy Citizens

By: Sarah S

Sarah S — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:39:53 +0000

hi everyone , First time poster and looking forward to being a part of the discussion!

By: Jay Fox

Jay Fox — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:37:52 +0000

If I’m not mistaken, didn’t we start out this way? I seem to remember being allotted a certain number of hours to connect way back then. Go over that, and pay dearly. Unlimited usage was supposed to be the new, better way.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:17:04 +0000

According the The Globe and Mail (our national newspaper here in Canada), The Prime Minister himself got into this, and told the CRTC to recind the ruling, or the government will overturn it. Yay for us!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/crtc-will-rescind-unlimited-use-internet-decision-or-ottawa-will-overturn-it/article1892522/

By: TRJc

TRJc — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:28:26 +0000

All internet transactions have 2 parties, the website and the reader. How will charges be divided between the 2? For example, the cost of advertising and spam should be charged to the advertiser or the spammer, not to the reader. I would be in favor of by byte charges provided I was only charged for data that I requested (at a reasonable rate), and advertisers and spammers were charged for their adds, because this would reduce the number of adds and spam.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:46:33 +0000

I’d love it it were true usage based billing with free market competition.

Unfortunately it’s an artificial monopoly foisting unreasonable rates for (low) cap overages.

I have no problem with paying for what I use…. but there has got to be some correlation between my usage and the cost!