| Anti-Competetive Business Tactics I forgot to mention in my last comment that I feel this is not the result of trying to reduce operating costs or network congestion.
Recently digital distribution services for television and movies have begun to spring up across the internet. Enforcing a hard bitcap and not offering a residential service that allows for lots of downloading effectively locks Cogeco's customers into their own in-house television and video-on-demand services. The cap on even the pro package is barely enough to support gaming services like Steam for gamers who would rather not go to a brick-and-mortar retailer.
Cogeco does not want to have to compete with digital distribution services so they have effectively locked Cogeco subscribers out of that market without blatantly blocking their competitors. This is a dishonest and monopolistic tactic that I feel is really despicable. I will be looking into online television providers and/or satellite as well as switching to a better ISP so that Cogeco no longer receives any of my money. |
