Bandwidth Bother

By on November 16, 2011 in Internet, News, Uncategorized

The CRTC made an important ruling today that permits big ISPs to introduce usage-based billing for smaller ISPs. Critics say that could boost the cost of  Internet access for many consumers. At least, I think that’s what the CRTC did. You can read the CBC report here.

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2 Responses to Bandwidth Bother

  1. Ron November 16, 2011 at 11:29 pm #

    In Fharenheit 451, the information / you know too much,police/ fire “service”, burned books. Now the CRTC is gonna Burn us all for using our cpus.
    RPL will need about 100,000 more computer terminals soon. Why pay fer mine, when I can use theirs?

  2. anonymous November 17, 2011 at 10:44 am #

    Next they’ll allow usage-based billing for landline telephones. What a crock.

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