Originally Posted by PHLN

The real concern is the fact that this is being enforced throughout all 3rd-party ISPs.

With no discernible difference in term of pricing structure, 3rd-party ISPs eventually will go belly up.

And that is how Bell regain its monopoly.

There is no competitions in Canada.

What's the problem? Bell is an amazing, fair, well-priced, and reputable company. They never have additional or "secret" charges and their customer service is known throughout the land.

Originally Posted by lawleypop

What's the problem? Bell is an amazing, fair, well-priced, and reputable company. They never have additional or "secret" charges and their customer service is known throughout the land.

Shit. You just broke my laptop's built-in sarcasm detector.

How will I survive on the forum now???! HOW!???

Originally Posted by PHLN

Are you talking about the new Usage Base Billing (UBB)? If that is so, its 25GB to start off. At least in Ontario, Bell is pushing hard for that.

Does not seems like it is geared toward people that download unbelievably large amount of data, does it?

If you download lots of data, you pay for the extra data.. the average person may go over 25GB, but what is the rate after you go above 25GB?

What I meant was that if you download terabytes of data, you'll obviously be paying much more overall.

Originally Posted by RyanC

If you download lots of data, you pay for the extra data.. the average person may go over 25GB, but what is the rate after you go above 25GB?

What I meant was that if you download terabytes of data, you'll obviously be paying much more overall.

They charge ~$2/GB for overage, though the CEO of Netflix recently pointed out that it costs them fractions of a penny to transfer that GB of data to you (they've already complained about the bandwidth caps quite a bit since UBB seems to be partly in response to netflix).

Originally Posted by Tailsnake

They charge ~$2/GB for overage, though the CEO of Netflix recently pointed out that it costs them fractions of a penny to transfer that GB of data to you (they've already complained about the bandwidth caps quite a bit since UBB seems to be partly in response to netflix).

Even worst since the thread is about the future of online TV viewing.

There is no future when bandwidth is being limited.

25GB in the age of digital media? Youtube going HighDef?

Then again the real problem is by going with this enforce User-Base-Billing, Bell removed any benefits for signing with a 3rd-party ISP.

Infact, you get probably will get better deal now going with Bell. This is their lines, they have the ability to actually give you extra data for free as a promotional offer whereby the 3rd-party ISP does not.

One layer is the bandwidth. But the real problem is lack of competition in Canada when it comes to Internet.

This is pathetic. It should go in the opposite direction with shows being offered on a central website, or the broadcaster website (say fox.com) AT THE SAME TIME that the episode airs on tv. Even if this means longer commercials. I find that people are willing to watch a few commercials if it mean not resorting to pirating websites.
If sites like HULU start to charge like a cable provider then more and more people are going to simply move to watching free, pirated movies on websites, usually only an hours after they air.
AND there goes TV because as shows get less profitable, the producer will just dump them