CANADIANS: The CRTC has just approved METERED INTERNET BILLING (UBB)

[tesco]

Geographically speaking, Canada is too huge to ever have competitive ISPs, I'm afraid. Dense residential zones are what drops the prices, so any nationwide ISP will face lots of challenges to become competitive.

But there are dense areas, such as the GTA (greater toronto area), ottawa, montreal, vancouver, etc.
There's no reason these areas couldn't have different services available than the non-dense (majority of canada) areas.

It's all about greed and a lack of competition. Here we only have two options, bell (owns all phone lines) and rogers (owns all cable lines). When one decreases caps, the other follows suit. There's just no competition other than those two so the end user gets shafted.

[becomehokage]

I told you ,canada sucks!

[chalice]

You'll all be fine when Gandalf comes back.

He's got a big stick.

[Speedo]

Do as your told Canansada.

[MagicNakor]

The CRTC now gets the option of reversing its decision or having the Tories overturn it. I'm fairly certain it's election manoeuvring on Harper's part, but...

[IdolEyes787]

The CRTC now gets the option of reversing its decision or having the Tories overturn it. I'm fairly certain it's election manoeuvring on Harper's part, but...

Yeah the statement has been issued . Doesn't really effect me one way or the other I think since they ( Cogeco) have merrily been charging me $1.50 for every Gb I've gone over my minuscule 60Gb cap (15/1 mbps ) for quite some time now.
Btw Canada has the highest user rates of any developed country which , seeing as vast portions aren't even yet high speed accessible ( so much for geography being a current factor ) is pretty ridiculous.
Like Tesco I'd trade the modest speed for a few more GBs as the speed is essentially largely going to waste anyway.