 Its a SecretPlease speak into the microphonePremium
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Da wet coast
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Re: Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship Blake, you're absolutely correct, us Shaw users have it very good here in Canada. I've been with them since way back as well. However, our friends that have the competition don't have it nearly so nice. I hope Jim Shaw keeps it as it is. He'll gain a lot of business...
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Calgary, AB
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| said by Its a Secret:Blake, you're absolutely correct, us Shaw users have it very good here in Canada. I've been with them since way back as well. However, our friends that have the competition don't have it nearly so nice. I hope Jim Shaw keeps it as it is. He'll gain a lot of business... My wife had a job with the competition and even with her employee discount I still stayed with Shaw.
I did a dot com company during the boom that showed me exactly how good we had it as our whole development team in Calgary over estimated internet connectivity for North America based on our personal experiences in Calgary, we recovered but wow it was an eye opener.
I remember when they built the original Shaw TV cable system in Calgary and how some people were thinking it was over kill to put in two way switches everywhere as 'its just for TV', but Shaw was planning for much more and we ended up with a pretty good system (some places I did business with elsewhere thought high speed cable meant cable down and phone up as they went cheap and with one way switches on their systems).
Now Shaw has been able to show shareholder growth in other ways (adding phone service etc) so the internet bunch isn't under siege yet, but at some point in time I expect Shaw might try some things which don't exactly endear itself to its customers (I hope not, but shareholder pressure can be a brutal thing and I'm not sure I'd ever take a company public again).
Blake
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Terra Firma | Looks like the USA is safe for the time being:
F.C.C. Chief Would Bar Comcast From Imposing Web Restrictions
By SAUL HANSELL
Published: July 12, 2008 - NYT
Federal regulators are prepared to take action against sellers of Internet access that want to restrict what their customers can do online.
Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said Friday that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, should be sanctioned because it had interfered with the Internet connections of users who were exchanging files with other people.
Mr. Martin’s recommendation is a strong push for network neutrality, the idea that Internet access providers like Comcast should not be allowed to favor some uses of their networks over others. Internet companies like Google and free speech advocates have backed this approach... (con't)
Read entire article: »www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/techn···f=slogin |
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