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The National - At Issue: The Bandwidth Battle

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Uploaded by on Feb 3, 2011

Peter Mansbridge hosts a panel on usage based billing with Andrew Coyne of Maclean's Magazine, Chantal Hebert of the Toronto Star, Jennifer Ditchburn of the Canadian Press, and Allan Gregg of Harris/Decima.

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  • The internet is not like an oil well, it wont run out of bandwidth, the ISP's in Canada have consistently overcharged for their service since day 1, it costs ISP's around 0.01$-0.03$/gb to get send/receive data to the average household. data caps are just another way to milk the consumer in a monopolized market. Shaw Charges 40$/m for 30gb and 1$ per additional gb,so Shaw charges you 44 times the actual cost what it takes to send this magical unlimited resource we call the internet to your house

  • LOL @ finite scarce resource. This guy is such an idiot. As if the internet is ever going to 'run out' of bandwidth, bahaha.

  • It's amazing how poorly informed and brainwashed the experts on the panel are... Man! We ARE a third world country...

  • are this guys stupid are what do some research and now what you are talking about

  • Nobody on here understands anything. Just a bunch of old farts.

  • The CBC is lessened by Coyne's presence.

  • If they're worried about lobbying influencing regulatory bodies through government intervention in their operations, how about worrying about the fact that those regulatory bodies are run by ex executives of the very companies they're supposed to be regulating? What a completely inane an uninformed discussion.

  • Andrew Coyne is the biggest tool in Canada. Not even Ben Mulroney comes close.

  • This is ridiculous. No one knows what the hell they are talking about. We need someone who knows what is going on in government. 

  • Its such a shame when the guest speakers try to use "politics" as a means of dismissing such an important issue for Canada's future.

    Also let me make it clear that physical comparisons to scarce resources is NOT an effective measure to sway citizen's decision. The internet does NOT function like water, gas usage, etc. It costs $0.01-$0.03 /GB.

    Its time for Canada to start pointing some fingers and ask "Why is it that other countries dominate the internet, and Canada's always playing catch up?"

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