CRTC Approves Usage Based Billing In Canada 381
qvatch writes with this from CBC News: "The CRTC has approved Bell Canada's request to bill Internet customers, both retail and wholesale, based on how much they download each month. The plan, known as usage-based billing, will apply to people who buy their Internet connection from Bell, or from smaller service providers that rent lines from the company, such as Teksavvy or Acanac. ... Customers using the fastest connections of five megabits per second, for example, will have a monthly allotment of 60 gigabytes, beyond which Bell will charge $1.12 per GB to a maximum of $22.50. If a customer uses more than 300 GB a month, Bell will also be able to implement an additional charge of 75 cents per gigabyte."
Re:The internet wasn't always unlimited. (Score:3, Funny)
Internet over sewer pipe?
Aha! So that's why I usually end up with a really shitty connection....
Re:Got it (Score:2, Funny)
That's because the pricing was originally based on typical usage patterns. In recent years, for reasons everyone already knows, average usage has sky-rocketed. Naturally prices are going to increase, this represents the increased costs of providing more total bandwidth.
Re:Crossing the tropics and oceans (Score:2, Funny)
Not to mention the crossover cables at the equator, so that the electrons are spinning in the right direction.
Re:Got it (Score:3, Funny)
If I started listing all the things that are shite about Belgium, I'd run out of paper before I got anywhere near internet transfer caps.
Get a sense of perspective.