if you buy a speed you should have that with no strings attached… the way they are running it we are not getting what we paid for. its the same with tv… if you watch too much do they charge you extra?

the only place paying for amount over speed is with electricity, and gas

download caps are also unnecessary to keep the internet alive, if we all paid say $30 for premium, they would at least have $30,000,000+ in Toronto alone and breaking up the price to pay .. say they have 600 (there is prob more but then there is also ALOT more people in toronto then 1,000,000 people) staff in toronto… they could make $200 ,000 a per year salaries! leaveing $20,000,000+ for makings new internet technologies and maintenance …. the download caps are just overkill for money grubbing!

Also, imagine living in a country where there is no escape from caps, at any speed.

Wait a second… $45.65 which is $15 higher than most americans pay? I pay 49.99 here in Rochester (and that’s not turbo)! To make it worse, their average cap is 60GB which is lower than ALL of TWC’s first round of caps!

Even as #28, might be worth moving to Canada.

TWO Thumbs Up!

Thanks for making me laugh today.

In the US:

People, I think the best thing we can do next to getting your local representatives involved, is to start contacting the companies that would be affected by these caps and get them on board. If we inundate their main office with letters urging them to get involved, I believe they will. A lot of people do not know what these ISP’s are trying to do. I try to educate as many as I can but something needs to be done nationwide like advertising. If we got enough companies against the cap involved, we might be able to get them to help leverage the cost of advertising. Think about it, if we get businesses on the anti-cap side, then those “free market” idiots won’t have a argument.

But if all else fails, we can have Al Gore get involved. I mean, come on, the guy created the internet. Or we could get G.W. and tell the cable companies how they have “misunderestimated” us. Sorry. thought I would inject a little humor. Politicians, you gotta love them.

Disclaimer:

Please don’t take the above political humor seriously. It could be detrimental to your health.

Oh and a quick glance at Roger’s earnings showed what I suspected:

Additions to property, plant and equipment for Cable Operations (which includes Internet service)
Three months ended March 31, 2008 $121M
Three months ended March 31, 2009 $104M
That’s a 14% decrease in capital expenditure

Operating Revenue for the Internet service component of their Cable Operations
Three months ended March 31, 2008 $166M
Three months ended March 31, 2009 $186M
That’s a 12% increase in operating revenue

“The year-over-year increase in Internet revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2009, primarily reflects the 6% increase in the Internet subscriber base combined with increased ARPU resulting from Internet services price increases made during the previous twelve months and incremental revenue from charges for additional usage for customers who exceed prescribed monthly gigabyte allowances.”

This CLEARLY shows that Rogers is not using the cap overage fees to offset the cost of service, but rather purely as a revenue generating scheme. I doubt we’d see a much different balance sheet here in the U.S.

http://www.rogers.com/cms/pdf/en/IR/QuarterlyReport/2009-Q1_Results-Release.pdf

And once again, none of the broadband companies have addressed the issue of Video Relay Services for the Deaf in the USA if there’s capped bandwidth.