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Originally Posted by qwertyuiop

Write your MPs, spread it around through email, facebook, twitter, etc. Whatever it takes to get the uninformed to understand what the impact will be for all Canadians. Seems many people are saying "so, I don't go over the limit anyways so it doesn't affect me" well tell them to STFU and educate them. Maybe they like living in a backwards country with corporate monopolies but I sure as hell don't.

I wrote my MP(libby davies) and she wrote me back.

Dear Chris,



Thanks for your email about the CRTC’s recent approval of Usage Based Billing for internet services – I agree, it’s an outrageous decision and as you suggest, undermines ‘net neutrality’ in Canada. I have shown my support for reform of internet usage billing policies by signing the openmedia.ca petition last Fall and trying to raise awareness about this issue through my Twitter and Facebook pages.



My colleagues Charlie Angus (Digital Issues Critic), and Brian Masse (Industry Critic), are carefully following this issue and I am confident they will be following up on this issue when Parliament resumes at the end of January. I have also attached our most recent press release on the issue.



Thanks for taking the time to write me about this important issue. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with future concerns about federal issues.



Sincerely,



Libby

Heres my original email (please excuse the spelling)

Hello,

I'm a resident in your riding and I wanted to send this email about a few issues i have with Usage Based Billing and Net Neutrality in Canada.

I feel like the Canadian telecom industry is falling behind on the international scene because of CRTC corruption and the anti-competitive nature of Rogers and Bell's oligopoly. As Canadians we are paying more for less. We endure poor internet price points and poor cell phone price points, the regulation of which is all derived from two main corporations (Rogers and Bell). We need more competition to spark more innovation and provide better price:service ratios. Canadians will not be able to compete on a global scale with a corrupt and archaic telecom infrastructure.

We pay a lot more per mbps than many other countries, yet we get lower speeds, we get tethered, and we have all kinds of bandwidth restrictions. Meanwhile, Canada is known as a very affluent nation when it comes to internet use, how come we don't have the technology to foster this?

Personally i don't under stand the recent allowance of Usage Based Billing to Canadians and how this beinfits Canadian Consumers and the people who use the internet on a daily basis. My work revolves around the internet and i see this as a step towards the end of Net Neutrality. Mean while these Companies complain that they need to implement UBB because it costs to much to upkeep the infrastructure they are building even though the Big 4 ISP's in Canada have had record profits in 2011.


The end of Net Neutrality is nere unless we can stop the CRTC from jumping on board with these companies. Net Neutrality is important because its the freedom of the internet and freedom of expression. THe internet is humanities way of connecting to one another and sharing ideas and information. If Net Neutrality end's i see a bleak future for the reasons listed.




I hope you get this message and i hope others have emailed you with the same concerns.



Thanks!