So if ever a “tax” did come about in Canada due to p2p, would the telco’s lower cost then add the “tax”? Probably not in my life time.

Yet the tax is there in Canada when we buy media so in effect we pay twice. ISP’s raising rates due to tranist/bandwidth costs and the tax on media. Yet CRIA/RIAA/MPAA screams that they are losing money when in fact they are making money (and so is the ISP, well the big ones who are charging more).

Sure it costs money and sure we pay for it from all sides before we get to download a thing. I can’t see how big telco can get away with charging an arm and a leg for access, then add on an additional 25$ for “unlimited” which isn’t unlimited, then the phone calls or abuse letters for using what we pay for!

Didn’t the crtc and/or analysts say we would benifit having open competiton and lower costs? What happened to that? One big scam is what it is, or what it appears to be.

I think this is one of those cases… The login was likely a reaction from their abuse department, who suspended the user, which filtered to their collections, which went to management, who then asked why this account wasn’t cancelled yet, who then went to someone in engineering who saw, hey… their port says they’re still online….Someone else’s login? From there they likely said something like, that’s not right, and barked.

Problem with this, which kind of ironic, is that that account for Bell just instantly became profitable as it no longer cost them transit…. Not looking at the big picture.

Rocky

heh. It’s probably me who should be fired. Now fixed, and thanks

on another note, I think to some extent that there is some hokey-pokey going on with big telco. How can they not provide unlimited when the small ISP’s can? Lets face it the big telco do have its hands in the american’s pockets, so I’m inclined to think there could be american influance, aside from making more profit and milking the subscribers. There was a PDF on BCE’s web site stating that Bell would co-operate with americans and such on cross-border issues (terrorism aside).

How can a big telco be afraid of a login account, big deal. How many would even know this route or pay know its available? Seems a little too heavy handed to me to more or less black-list them from DSL all together by removing them as eligable for DSL for reasons that they don’t even tell their own customers about!

So there is more to this story (and this milking machine called big telco)…

Also I think there is a typo in two URL’s

Where it states:
“(Canadian competitiveness consultation)” It should have two links:
http://mhgoldberg.com/blog/
AND
http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/cprp-gepmc.nsf/en/h_00001e.html

I would fire Ottawa Gal for this.

That web page says:
“Enjoy lightening fast 1.0mbs connections for as little as 45.99/month”

Ummm hate to break the news to you if it isn’t a joke, but even bell can give you 1mbps for less cost. Thats 24$ dsl… Hope it was a joke… if not you are being screwed big time.