You know this is Liberal propoganda? If they get in power they will do nothing to change anything, and in fact actually make it worse. Also all you are doing is giving the Liberals your email so they can spam you if you do check off the boexes, so be carefull "signing" this petition.

*sigh* Like we don't know, but you suggest an alternative?

Welcome to the club, Canada! We can fight the good fight together, ey?

Well we get capped. We get 60GB. 30 on peak 30 off peak. $15 for 20GB if you want a top up. They don't charge if we go over the limit either, we just get the speed lowered to dial up speed. Its not bad but man oh man I would give so much for unlimited Internet. You Americans and Europeans are spoiled rotten.

i actually brought this up in one with some of my friends when were discussing how different governments view rights. someone was talking about how canada was so much better than the US cause of their free healthcare. i showed them their internet plan and they shut up right away. i guess internet trumps healthcare. :teehee:

Can't wait for the day Australia has fibre optic internet almost everywhere. When we do, we'll finally be able to be really, really smug at Americans ^_^.

Especially when said healthcare can often leave people waiting years for surgical procedures and/or various tests. Have a couple of friends up in Canada, none of them can stand their Healthcare system.

If they need attention for something life threatening and they can't get it in Canadia they can go elsewhere and seek medical attention and the Canadian govt will pay for it.

Well we get capped. We get 60GB. 30 on peak 30 off peak. $15 for 20GB if you want a top up. They don't charge if we go over the limit either, we just get the speed lowered to dial up speed. Its not bad but man oh man I would give so much for unlimited Internet. You Americans and Europeans are spoiled rotten.

correction, the Japanese are spoiled rotten. they get the same speeds, unlimited bandwidth, AT OVER HALF THE COST! What costs us $40 cost them and equivalent of $15.

I pay $40 for 15MB/unlimited.

You’ve helped make history and move politics by signing OpenMedia.ca’s Stop The Meter Petition. You’ve probably also seen the recent reports: Canadians across the country are battling with phone companies over excessive data fees.

The CBC's Marketplace just released a revealing report called “Canada's Worst Cell Phone Bill” that finds damning evidence that Canadians are being unfairly gouged by big phone and cable companies.

One person was charged over $15,000 for a data service that experts say cost the provider only $4!


Bell Canada and others are copying this unfair and outrageous billing model, and applying it to Internet use.

The CBC’s report tells a story that could mobilize Canadians that are fed up with being gouged.

As a federal election looms, we have a unique moment to send a message to decision makers in Ottawa.

We need to reach half-a-million petition signers to make big telecom price gouging an election issue. We’re almost there and you can help by taking the steps below:

Step 1. Share the CBC video clip using Facebook, Twitter, and/or Email.

Step 2. Share our petition on Facebook, Twitter, and Email. Our Stop the Meter petition is an undeniable symbol of Canadian opposition to the predatory practices of Big Telecom. Every share helps.

With your help we’ve had great success: getting all the political parties on our side, forcing the CRTC to review its UBB rules, and even forcing the CRTC to open its closed-door meetings.

But we need to do more to take on the key structural issues that enable phone and cable companies to repeatedly gouge Canadians with impunity.

Clearly new telecom fees are about padding big telecoms bottom line at the expense of our personal and family budgets. OpenMedia.ca has learned that Bell’s CEO has even admitted that applying usage-based billing is really about the telecom giant “monetizing” the increase in online video usage.

Many of you have dealt with the cold, unaccountable, labyrinth of bureaucracy that is big phone and cable company customer service. Stop The Meter has become a rallying cry against this mistreatment of Canadians.

This is not just about consumer choice; it’s also about basic human decency and self-determination.

If we don't succeed in making this an election issue, the opportunity could slip through our fingers and we'll be fighting over Internet bills like many do with phone bills now.

Help us get half-a-million Canadians against a metered Internet so we can get public officials on record during the election. You can count on us to be there after the election to hold their feet to the fire.

Please share the CBC video clip using Facebook, Twitter, and Email.

Let’s keep the pressure on.

And the fight continues. So let's keep fighting the good fight my fellow Canadians! Make sure to view the videos linked at the bottom, it's just ridiculous what's going on!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsffmLcEqPo
http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=7z5w%2BIGegwbzo18k3dtyn67jKoBopJls
http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=P8qEZ6gAa%2FsE3slshr3ka67jKoBopJls

I'm surprised at people's surprise. It has long been foretold in mainstream tech sites that both US and Canada were headed toward metered billing. This last decade was spent fighting the slowly evolving thing. Too little too late.

Why? Because it's far more profitable to squeeze out higher end users and doesn't require the investment into rolling out new technology to fit the public's bandwidth needs. If they are going to be allowed the monopolies they have and pursue this, may as well just make this a Democratic process and spread muni broadband all over Canada wherever they want it to force companies to really compete.

Also, Videotron has implemented monthly caps for what, 10 years now?

Yea it certainly will be too late with that attitude.

What attitude?

The "roll over and die" attitude.

Which part was "roll over and die"? I thought I presented an alternative to combating this.