Why is everyone upset over this?? When was the last time you phoned up your utility company ie: electricity provider, natural gas provider etc. etc. and told them to STOP CHARGING ME BY METERING ME!! You haven't?? Well, let me suggest you and I have been paying USER BASED FEES for decades. It seems strange when the ISP's DARE charge us by a metered basis we suddenly feel the need to complain. Let's not be hypocrytical, next time you get your utility bill, call them too.
@robbcarson The internet is not a resource that runs out. You can't use it up like you can with natural gas and electricity. Ironically, some of these telecoms are releasing their OWN internet tv and crap that requires the use of internet. If they're so worried about the costs of usage, then they'd be against putting MORE strain on the poor internet ):
Of course they're just trying to recoup loses from their phone and television divisions, because the internet makes them redundant.
A few weeks ago I did what some might deem impossible or unthinkable: I cancelled cable TV. In retrospect it was long overdue. With today’s technology and high speed internet connections, I can watch most of my favorite shows on-demand with little or no extra cost. Ditto for movies, news, and even some sports.
Sad this is the top UBB Canada link. Not very good look for the Stop the Meter rally footage with Jack Layton and the minister of industry for the Liberals.
that increase has cost the cable and telephone companies billions to augment their networks. Why should Netflix, Apple etc get to deliver their content for free when the cable and telco's have to pay to build the network to deliver their content? The current UBB proposal will on impact 2% of canadian users while the other 98% will continue status quo. If no UBB everyone will see an increase in their internet bill to pay for the 2% of users.
@jklimtsc please stop saying those shit. we PAY for the ¨content¨ to be delivered. its not netflix or apple that need to pay. ISP want smaller caps to make more money and to limit netflix which is stealing the tv crowd. Dont you know we are one of the top country that pay a lot for its internet? why are they reducing cap every year while our usage grow every year.
ISP dont sell the internet, they sell an ACESS, and they want to limit it. please stop saying those shits
don't you people understand that there are Billions of dollars invested to build the massive networks required to support the internet? Companies like Netflix were built on a platform of distribution of content (movies) through orders online, at which time they mailed a DVD. They paid for delivery of the content. now they want to deliver that content for free across the internet, but those types of services have increased bandwidth usuage 300% in the past 3 years.
@brknspacebar No I pay 30 dollars a month and have 10mb dwn and 500kb up unlimited. My family and I watch 3 hours of streaming video on Netflix a day (more than 1 PC). Watch videos on all of the news sites then I get on and watch 10 or so you tube videos a day and we have two gamers that play about 4 hours a day and host servers. Our usage is crazy high...we download tons of stuff as well. I live in rural USA Midwest...so that's what we got.
Sign the petitionTo the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission:
As concerned Canadians who value journalistic integrity, we urge the CRTC to protect, not weaken, Canada's standards for journalism by refusing to change the "fair and balanced" rule for news networks and distributors. Open and honest media is vital to our democracy. We urge you to keep Canada's news honest. avaaz
@lvll138inrs I hope you're not serious!! So, you are telling talented people across Canada you don't care about them in the least. I don't know what you do for work to support your family, but, I'll bet you would be incensed if someone put a suggestion on here that we should use ONLY American workers in your field and to h*** with you, because, cutting Canadian content rules would lead to exactly that in my industry. American shows?? You really like them?? That's scary. YIKES.
Ok, fellow peasants, maybe it's time we stop bitching and do something about this. One idea is to develop an ISP that is a public utility, owned and operated by you and me. I started an online poll, but if you have a better polling site, let me know: 99polls.com/poll_46017:1
If the nazis AKA Internet service Providers are going to tell us what to do now online , they need rules too , ill pay the same price per month which is currently in effect for a new capped internet as long as there is an option that if the person as an internet subscriber exceeds there facist capping of internet bandwidth the internet provider can be told to cut the service off until the folowing month why should the customer have to watch a servive that they are paying for.
What if we all boycotted Shaw (or whoever), citing the fees as the reason, and switched to an alternative? Would Shaw be forced to remove the fees to retain customers, and then the others would have to follow?
Bell Canada is making life miserable for Canadians and the only way to teach it respect is to put a dent in the one thing it cares about..the bottom line.
We are asking Canadian people and businesses to immediately begin boycotting all Bell Canada goods and services.
We ask those who are locked into Bell contracts to stop using Bell services once their contracts expire. Boycott Demands
Because I clicked on "australian english" when buil;ding the video :-)
The xtranormal videos are all over the place with the standard USA accent and I figured I shoudl try a different one and the assie one was of good quality in terms of speech synthesys.
Because I clicked on "australian english" when building the video :-)
The xtranormal videos are all over the place with the standard USA accent and I figured I shoudl try a different one and the assie one was of good quality in terms of speech synthesys.
UBB is purely a bureaucratic decision by the CRTC, not by the government. I certainly hope that the government overrules it, but people need to be cognisant of what is being asked here. They are asking that the government interfere with the rules of an arms-length commissions that has the authority under law to make this decision.
I have already written Minister Clement about my concerns with the ruling. Others should do the same. But let's give the government some time to respond to it.
Its over unfortunately. Bell has won and the only way people can fight back is either take it to the streets en mass and protest or else cancel every single BHell service they have and hurt them in the pocket book.
Otherwise UBB and insane stupid 25GB caps are here to stay. =(
The internet is still a disruptive technology, lots of money is being made. Quality of service (QoS) should meet the demand of the consumer. If network improvements need to be made please do so you filthy rich bastards. A sidenote to this is I have personaly never experienced my connection to be throttled and it never goes down? I think the real QoS has not been shared and I want the actual numbers.
Thank you, shall be posting about UBB and what must be done. Have signed several petitions regarding 'net neutrality' and shall link your site (again) at mine. Cudos to the animator, as well. The fart was tactful. What???
A real attention getter, good work.
"Up and at 'em!" or Out and at 'em! hehe And yes, I know; this is no laughing matter; am simply trying to keep a sense of humour. With how chaotic 2010 had been, we need a grin. Comic relief is a welcome antidote to corporate greed. Peace!
Tony Clement has to hear the complaints. He is an elected official. Yes, his goal is to support Bell, but if there is sufficient pressure from the public, then he had to reduce his default support for Bell.
Help do something about ubb before election time - visit Open media .ca
jktubeify 10 months ago
Why is everyone upset over this?? When was the last time you phoned up your utility company ie: electricity provider, natural gas provider etc. etc. and told them to STOP CHARGING ME BY METERING ME!! You haven't?? Well, let me suggest you and I have been paying USER BASED FEES for decades. It seems strange when the ISP's DARE charge us by a metered basis we suddenly feel the need to complain. Let's not be hypocrytical, next time you get your utility bill, call them too.
robbcarson 11 months ago
@robbcarson The internet is not a resource that runs out. You can't use it up like you can with natural gas and electricity. Ironically, some of these telecoms are releasing their OWN internet tv and crap that requires the use of internet. If they're so worried about the costs of usage, then they'd be against putting MORE strain on the poor internet ):
Of course they're just trying to recoup loses from their phone and television divisions, because the internet makes them redundant.
elvickRULES 10 months ago
A few weeks ago I did what some might deem impossible or unthinkable: I cancelled cable TV. In retrospect it was long overdue. With today’s technology and high speed internet connections, I can watch most of my favorite shows on-demand with little or no extra cost. Ditto for movies, news, and even some sports.
wpniabbc 11 months ago
Sad this is the top UBB Canada link. Not very good look for the Stop the Meter rally footage with Jack Layton and the minister of industry for the Liberals.
FriendlyNewt 11 months ago
that increase has cost the cable and telephone companies billions to augment their networks. Why should Netflix, Apple etc get to deliver their content for free when the cable and telco's have to pay to build the network to deliver their content? The current UBB proposal will on impact 2% of canadian users while the other 98% will continue status quo. If no UBB everyone will see an increase in their internet bill to pay for the 2% of users.
jklimtsc 1 year ago
@jklimtsc please stop saying those shit. we PAY for the ¨content¨ to be delivered. its not netflix or apple that need to pay. ISP want smaller caps to make more money and to limit netflix which is stealing the tv crowd. Dont you know we are one of the top country that pay a lot for its internet? why are they reducing cap every year while our usage grow every year.
ISP dont sell the internet, they sell an ACESS, and they want to limit it. please stop saying those shits
mat967 1 year ago
don't you people understand that there are Billions of dollars invested to build the massive networks required to support the internet? Companies like Netflix were built on a platform of distribution of content (movies) through orders online, at which time they mailed a DVD. They paid for delivery of the content. now they want to deliver that content for free across the internet, but those types of services have increased bandwidth usuage 300% in the past 3 years.
jklimtsc 1 year ago
@jklimtsc im not very informed on this stuff so excuse my ignorance, but how does the usa deal with this, are they on ubb as well?
brknspacebar 1 year ago
@brknspacebar No I pay 30 dollars a month and have 10mb dwn and 500kb up unlimited. My family and I watch 3 hours of streaming video on Netflix a day (more than 1 PC). Watch videos on all of the news sites then I get on and watch 10 or so you tube videos a day and we have two gamers that play about 4 hours a day and host servers. Our usage is crazy high...we download tons of stuff as well. I live in rural USA Midwest...so that's what we got.
cchanderson 1 year ago
Sign the petitionTo the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission:
As concerned Canadians who value journalistic integrity, we urge the CRTC to protect, not weaken, Canada's standards for journalism by refusing to change the "fair and balanced" rule for news networks and distributors. Open and honest media is vital to our democracy. We urge you to keep Canada's news honest. avaaz
phreakert 1 year ago
what does a petition do? if you complain to them about it how is that going to stop it from happening?
best496 1 year ago
they should scrap canadian content rules so canadians can watch more american programming. also funding to canadians art and cultures should be cut.
lvll138inrs 1 year ago
@lvll138inrs I hope you're not serious!! So, you are telling talented people across Canada you don't care about them in the least. I don't know what you do for work to support your family, but, I'll bet you would be incensed if someone put a suggestion on here that we should use ONLY American workers in your field and to h*** with you, because, cutting Canadian content rules would lead to exactly that in my industry. American shows?? You really like them?? That's scary. YIKES.
robbcarson 11 months ago
They want to sell Gigabytes like crack, its all *Que Lex Luther* WRONG!!!
leerman22 1 year ago
Ok, fellow peasants, maybe it's time we stop bitching and do something about this. One idea is to develop an ISP that is a public utility, owned and operated by you and me. I started an online poll, but if you have a better polling site, let me know: 99polls.com/poll_46017:1
Saligubung 1 year ago
ISPS MAKE NEW FIBER 100+MBPS CONNECTIONS WHICH 98 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION DOESNOT NEED THEN SAY THE NETS SLOWING DOWN WE NEED
THERE IS NO SUCH THINGS AS COINCIDENT
IpeoplerthepowerI 1 year ago
@1:37 WTF
u2b4u2b 1 year ago
SOMEONE SHOULD GET FIRED FOR MAKING CANADIANS ANGRY OVER WHAT WILL BECOME A FALSE ALARM!
Enlight3nd 1 year ago
SIGN THE PETITION !
pbking15 1 year ago
STOP THIS UBB CRAP RIGHT NOW.
zev007 1 year ago
STOP THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW.
zev007 1 year ago
Imma going to get my pitchfork!
JohnKimberland 1 year ago
Fuck this. If this passes I'll move to the States.
SteelRocker 1 year ago 2
Fuck this!!! the CRTC needs to be dissolved
StevoElsupremo 1 year ago 5
If the nazis AKA Internet service Providers are going to tell us what to do now online , they need rules too , ill pay the same price per month which is currently in effect for a new capped internet as long as there is an option that if the person as an internet subscriber exceeds there facist capping of internet bandwidth the internet provider can be told to cut the service off until the folowing month why should the customer have to watch a servive that they are paying for.
imnotyoursheep 1 year ago
SOMEBODY will get elected prime minister if he puts a stop to this.
leerman22 1 year ago
fucking clowns... Hands off the Internet... bitches
HustlerGSUS 1 year ago
will cogeco be hit with this?
wieran35000vr 1 year ago
Charging you more for less
Good by net fliX good by online gaming downloading games through steam no way
MMO’s like world at war craft will die if this will is allowed to fly.
darkblood626 1 year ago
What if we all boycotted Shaw (or whoever), citing the fees as the reason, and switched to an alternative? Would Shaw be forced to remove the fees to retain customers, and then the others would have to follow?
MrMann110 1 year ago
At least the media is reporting it now and Harper has made a statement about UBB. Keep up the pressure and go Egyptian on their asses!
JDubs878 1 year ago 3
did he fart at 1:37?
rotex69 1 year ago
Internet is gonna lose SO MUCH MONEY!
miniixio 1 year ago
canada is the worst country i moved to
mobabur94 1 year ago
Our government would rather spend billions to defend against Canadians (G20) than protect them from corporate interests (Bell/Rogers)
Enlight3nd 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Bell Canada is making life miserable for Canadians and the only way to teach it respect is to put a dent in the one thing it cares about..the bottom line.
We are asking Canadian people and businesses to immediately begin boycotting all Bell Canada goods and services.
We ask those who are locked into Bell contracts to stop using Bell services once their contracts expire. Boycott Demands
An end to Usage Based Billing (UBB)
Adherer to the principles of Network Neutrality
macplumber 1 year ago
informative. but they had aussie accents. why?
misterrslim 1 year ago 4
@misterrslim
Because I clicked on "australian english" when buil;ding the video :-)
The xtranormal videos are all over the place with the standard USA accent and I figured I shoudl try a different one and the assie one was of good quality in terms of speech synthesys.
jfmezei 1 year ago
@misterrslim
Because I clicked on "australian english" when building the video :-)
The xtranormal videos are all over the place with the standard USA accent and I figured I shoudl try a different one and the assie one was of good quality in terms of speech synthesys.
jfmezei 1 year ago
UBB is purely a bureaucratic decision by the CRTC, not by the government. I certainly hope that the government overrules it, but people need to be cognisant of what is being asked here. They are asking that the government interfere with the rules of an arms-length commissions that has the authority under law to make this decision.
I have already written Minister Clement about my concerns with the ruling. Others should do the same. But let's give the government some time to respond to it.
comfyfur 1 year ago
Its over unfortunately. Bell has won and the only way people can fight back is either take it to the streets en mass and protest or else cancel every single BHell service they have and hurt them in the pocket book.
Otherwise UBB and insane stupid 25GB caps are here to stay. =(
JDubs878 1 year ago
The CRTC has approved METERED BILLING (UBB)! You will now pay PER BYTE for Email, Youtube, Windows updates, video games, etc.
1GB of data costs an ISP LESS THAN ONE PENNY. They charge $1 to $4 per GB!
ISPs use using UBB as an excuse to limit our access to their TV competitors.
FAX your complaint to the CRTC: 1-819-994-0218
FAX your complaint to Tony Clement: 1-613-992-0302
Gather your friends, and join the 85,000 Canadians at openmedia.ca and sign the petition.
WilliamKayy 1 year ago 7
Once again, teh Conservatives are halting progress and helping CEOs' pa for their hookers.
jewpiles 1 year ago
if tony clement doesn't want to listen then people can just make a point of publicly shaming him until he does, and he does the appropriate thing
noobler9 1 year ago
The internet is still a disruptive technology, lots of money is being made. Quality of service (QoS) should meet the demand of the consumer. If network improvements need to be made please do so you filthy rich bastards. A sidenote to this is I have personaly never experienced my connection to be throttled and it never goes down? I think the real QoS has not been shared and I want the actual numbers.
captaincough 1 year ago
Thank you, shall be posting about UBB and what must be done. Have signed several petitions regarding 'net neutrality' and shall link your site (again) at mine. Cudos to the animator, as well. The fart was tactful. What???
A real attention getter, good work.
"Up and at 'em!" or Out and at 'em! hehe And yes, I know; this is no laughing matter; am simply trying to keep a sense of humour. With how chaotic 2010 had been, we need a grin. Comic relief is a welcome antidote to corporate greed. Peace!
neilemac 1 year ago
Tony Clement has to hear the complaints. He is an elected official. Yes, his goal is to support Bell, but if there is sufficient pressure from the public, then he had to reduce his default support for Bell.
jfmezei 1 year ago 15
Office of the Honourable Tony Clement
Minister of Industry
C.D. Howe Building
235 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H5
Canada
Tel :613-995-9001
Fax: 613-992-0302
notcool2112 1 year ago 6