TekSavvy's George Burger on Usage Based Billing UBB-GlobalTV Focus Ontario

Sean O'Shea of Global TV talks to TekSavvy advisor George Burger about the government's recent intervention into the imposition of usage based billing on smaller ISP's. Segment from Global TV's Focus Ontario on February 5, 2011.

We're finally making progress but we have to keep making noise to finish the job.

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• usage
• based
• billing
• ubb
• internet
• ripoff
• canada
• crtc
• scam
• duopoly
• bell
• teksavvy
• george
• burger

[rebelyell1983x]

George Burger should be the chairman of the CRTC!!

[kamilmytnik]

@rebelyell1983x yeah instead we have a dinosaur who thinks IPTV is not via internet. The friggin' name alone stands for 'Internet Protocol Television'

George Burger would make an awesome chairman.

[mike12wq]

Burger argues the case perfectly for Teksavvy, but he'd argue just as well against if you paid him...

[leerman22]

Canadian internet jokes:

Q: How expensive is your internet?

A: Its so expensive than Canada Post mails me youtube on SSD's!

I want to build a time machine to go back in time when the internet is more developed!

American ISP's will someday microwave dish their internet to me across the boarder, But the CRTC will call it Pirate Internet and ban it. (Pirate Radio reference)

[UnknownXV]

Dear god, smart people with some degree of power! Did hell freeze over?

[eatmyshorts2007]

VOTE NDP TO CHANGE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[reignofchaos968]

as far as i know the opposition parties (for once) are in agreement with the conservatives that this would not be benificial for canada and her economy

[TheSlevinCalevra]

@rebelyell1983x YES! That's a bloody brilliant idea. He's very well informed (UNLIKE the current chairman) and actually gives a shit that consumers are getting screwed by huge companies.

[knpi]

@ShebazJenkins

i was under the impression that most of the canadian population lived along with border. if that's the case, then it should not matter how "vast" canada is. sinxe a good chunk of the population is conentrated along the border than it should be that much easier to implement internet service comparable to that of the UK and Japan.

[zTheOnez]

@ShebazJenkins Or their 2gb plan that costs 27$. That is over a 400% markup.

[zTheOnez]

@ShebazJenkins DSL uses phone lines which are already in place and have been for years. These phone lines have already payed for themselves and then some.

Even if that were not the case would it not then be logical to charge customers who live in rural area's more for their internet services? I live in Toronto and I see no reason to pay more because some one chose to live 200 km from the city.

The provider cost per gb is 2-3 cents. Now compare that to Roger's 175gb plan that costs 99$.

[tunglete]

whatever decision coming out I will never switch to Bell service.