metered Internet comes to Canada
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2011.01.24
Hooray for the government! Always there for the big telcos and their ilk.
They've decided to allow our internet services providers to charge for every byte of Internet traffic we use. I'm sure the rationalizations put forward by the telcos and cable companies were quite expensively written and therefore have that spurious tang of sensibility. But this amounts to charging for nothing: it costs the telcos nothing to bear more network load and this allows them to create profit from that nothing.
I've rarely noticed that signing petitions does a lot of good, but I'm a believer in speaking up and have therefor made my attempt at lobbying the government to reverse this decision.