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Hehe · 04-29-2011, 08:10 AM

I think the Canadian ISPs are too greedy.

They argue that the cost of maintaining their backbones is too high for allowing heavy users. The fact is, we are in an era where Internet become not just part of our life but also a fundamental tool to increase competitiveness in the IT sector.

If your bandwidth is reaching the limit, you should do an overhaul to your network to increase it. Look at countries like Japan or Korea. They have options to get gigE to home and their price is much different than our crappy 15mbps plan.

Bandwidth cost is so low that they are ripping us the consumers off. It costs them around 3 cents per gigabyte of transfer or about 8 cents with their own cost included. The cost can be even lower if they go full fiber optic. The majority of big infrastructure providers are suggesting a price of less than $1/mbps before 2015 (every mbps=roughly 316GB/month) and it means that for ISPs, their long term cost is declining. Yet they are asking consumer to pay more money for the access.

I won't support any party that doesn't include IT development in their agenda. And clearly, an affordable and fast access to Internet is at the very top of the list.

04-29-2011, 08:10 AM	#38
Hehe OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: YVR/TPE Posts: 5,241 Thanked 3,303 Times in 1,464 Posts Failed 685 Times in 223 Posts	I think the Canadian ISPs are too greedy. They argue that the cost of maintaining their backbones is too high for allowing heavy users. The fact is, we are in an era where Internet become not just part of our life but also a fundamental tool to increase competitiveness in the IT sector. If your bandwidth is reaching the limit, you should do an overhaul to your network to increase it. Look at countries like Japan or Korea. They have options to get gigE to home and their price is much different than our crappy 15mbps plan. Bandwidth cost is so low that they are ripping us the consumers off. It costs them around 3 cents per gigabyte of transfer or about 8 cents with their own cost included. The cost can be even lower if they go full fiber optic. The majority of big infrastructure providers are suggesting a price of less than $1/mbps before 2015 (every mbps=roughly 316GB/month) and it means that for ISPs, their long term cost is declining. Yet they are asking consumer to pay more money for the access. I won't support any party that doesn't include IT development in their agenda. And clearly, an affordable and fast access to Internet is at the very top of the list. __________________ Nothing for now