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Called shaw earlier because I had to cancel something from my dad's TV package. I then brought up the issue of UBB and how it was affecting me. A big chunk of my bandwidth this month was eaten up because of school. Version control, backups, downloading examples all take a big chunk. Downloading a few 100mb examples and uploading my project every so often all adds up.
He didn't really care so I told him I'd cancel and transfer over to telus. He laughed and said you're kidding yourself if you think telus isn't going to charge. I said I know but they still don't have an implementation to meter their Optik services and he said they eventually will. Just kept saying I'm kidding myself.
He then tells me its necessary that they're doing this to limit people from overusing the internet which is a complete joke. I went on about how it was going to destroy net neutrality in Canada. He just says It's necessary because you pay for what you use. I tell him yea I know but it's not fair to be charging a huge markup for it. Told him the $.02/GB compared to $2/GB they're charging. Decided to give me the electricity example. Threw it back at him and told him they don't charge an extreme amount for going over.
Didn't really offer anything even though my dad's been with them for almost 16 years. I think it was just the CSR though, last time I called they offered me a pretty good deal to stay. This guy sounded a lot like Schwarzenegger lol.
Oh well will try and call again tomorrow.
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