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[CA3LE6UY]

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Users in our forum note that Bell Canada has begun charging users $1 per gigabyte, for every gigabyte over three hundred that they consume each month. In other words, users paying $44.95 CA (unbundled, no contract) for 7 Mbps DSL, could face a bill up to $154.95 CA (plus fees) should they and consume 350 GB one month. Many users of course won't hit that 300 GB cap -- but a significant number of customers will, and that's a fairly steep price for what's essentially last-generation broadband technology. The move comes after the CRTC gave Canadian incumbents the green light for usage-based-billing (UBB) of wholesalers (which prevents any competitor from offering superior, uncapped services,) and only a few months after Netflix launched streaming HD video services in Canada.

Source: DSLReports.com

[CA3LE]

  I would be pretty pissed if I got charged overages like that... BS.  If you get a 7Mbps line (for instance) then the provider should limit your usage to 7Mbps... no cap.

If you run a 7Mbps line at full capacity for 30 days...

((7 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30) / 8.192 / 1024) = 2162.93 GB ... and they limit users to 300GB /month (7 times less than what a 7Mbps line would transfer if it was maxed out)  --- SO, basically Bell Canada users that are paying for 7Mbps get 7Mbps of speed... but they are only allowed to transfer as much per month as a maxed out 1Mbps line!  Not fair.  

Now, most normal users wouldn't go over that cap... 10GB/day is allot... but I feel sorry for those who do get charged overages.