| We don't have much choice... Rogers is pretty well the sole cable choice in many area. And in areas not served by DSL, they are the ONLY broadband choice. They face few government regulations about what they can and can't do. No wonder they are able to stick it to us pretty well any time they want to. I was one of the lucky ones - I'm an Ultra Lite subscriber who is in on the 60Gb grandfathered tier, rather than being reduced to 2Gb. I've always stayed within that 60Gb cap with no problems, as I'm usually somewhere around 30Gb per month. If they had attempted to reduce my cap, I was prepared to go back to dial up rather than paying them $20.00 extra per month to upgrade to Express. I would like to see a lot more regulation in the Canadian broadband industry. It is my opinion that Rogers is in a conflict of interest position regarding their throttling and caps. In addition to being a broadband ISP, they provide cable television, and own a chain of video stores, among other things. I think their throttling and capping is less about controlling bandwidth use than it is about preventing the use of downloading technologies which may hurt their other financial interests. |
