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reply to Foggy

Re: [BC] TELUS High Speed Turbo 25 Usage being reduced 50%

reply to Kruisey
Okay, so now you're trolling for Big Content as well. In case you didn't get the memo, Big Content is rolling in money. They are not suffering.

reply to Kruisey
I presume you mean these words I wrote ealier.
There is nothing pertaining to the word Troll in there.
Just asked a question.

reply to Foggy
Way to keep the page hidden, Telus!
WTH?
Such a huge change should be listed on Telus's main website!
Unbelievable, Telus.
Unbelievable!

reply to Foggy
God It is amazing how these threads get derailed. These discussions about anything BUT TELUS raising its caps makes me realize that our goal in society is a [insert organ or bodily function] contest.

Listen, it's simple. The ONLY factor that comes into play is if they will enforce any of the caps, and if they are reducing these caps to chamber their weapon for the future IF they decide to actually put the clamp down.

I don't know how much I use. There's no way for me to test via any link, not from my modem, nothing. I have never gotten a notice for usage.

But if I ever do, and ever have issues, there's ts, no? I would mess up some issues with TV, but still... It would be freeing I think

Seriously though. Caps... What's the point? It's not enforced and is probably being done to prepare if they ever decide to enforce. Has that not always been the case? Is there anything different now? Is it FUD?

I think the problem with relying on enforcement is nobody has a clue whether they will or not... but they certainly could and obviously are starting to pay attention to bandwidth in some regard because they are going down this road. In a typical month I am probably under 60gb so I'm not really going to suffer either way, I just hate an ISP doing rollbacks in a time when, if anything, it should be going the other way.

reply to Foggy
A couple of points :

1) If they aren't going to enforce, then why wouldn't they grandfather me or agree to waive any overage fees for the duration of my contract?

2) I was treated very rudely by the time I got to escalations and they looked at my usage. Basically they accused me of torrenting (which I don't). At escalations they kept trying to blame it on me, when obviously they offered the product at such and such cap, and Im below that cap (but close). Not my fault.

End result: telus is extremely deceptive with their contracts , and basically an evil company.

You wont find a single thing on the website suggesting that your "contract" is actually just a sham that completely screws the customer while giving telus all the leeway in the world.

Is that confirmed...People keep saying stuff and im not sure if they know something, or its just speculation they think its coming.

By the way everytime i phone into telus i get different responses from different people.

reply to pfak

said by pfak:

said by bluenote73:

1) If they aren't going to enforce, then why wouldn't they grandfather me or agree to waive any overage fees for the duration of my contract?

That's because overage charges are coming .. My friend

reply to Foggy
Will there be a drop in price because of this?
If so, then by how much?

reply to Foggy
Bah.. First Shaw threatened to screw us with the UBB so I left for Telus, they said sorry so I went back for them to screw me around yet again so I go back to Telus. Now Telus are pulling this crap. I'm sticking around just in case this is just them trying to upsell heavy users on Turbo 50 and not a precursor to UBB. But if it's more, then I guess it's time to jump ship again. Luckily February coincides with when my promo is up.

But between the usage caps and the copyright trolls moving north, I'm seriously considering whether it's worth having an Internet connection at all.

reply to bluenote73

This year Shaw had income of $5 billion and Telus had $10.8 billion. I'm sure you can appreciate that Teksavvy is a teeny bit smaller. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet can afford to do things I can't. What a shock.

There's a reason that Voltage chose Distributel (the company that couldn't even be bothered to show up) and Teksavvy as their first forays into Canada. It sucks, but at least Teksavvy are doing the best they can.

The fault here is with the government for passing the stupid law that made this possible and Voltage for taking advantage.

And how exactly is it that their customers privacy isn't being looked after? Has the information for one subscriber been passed into the hands of Voltage? Didn't think so...

Distributel are the ones who didn't even put up a token fight, and by now those IP addresses are all in the hands of the trolls.

In comparison, Teksavvy appears to be being... well, quite savvy.

I think it's pretty clear that TELUS is seriously looking at implementing UBB. Data is their biggest cash cow. On the day we found out they are slashing bandwidth Internet usage caps significantly Rogers announced a huge amount of profit from cellular data. The thing is TELUS is a cell company a very profitable one and most of that profit comes from data charges. They had built new data centres and made investments (which is good).

Now is the time for them as a business and be responsible... look to recoup costs of investment. Over the past few years there have been those press releases with "Telus investing $1.7 bill in network" each year. TELUS has a cellular phone company mentality. They will Unfortunatley look to be proactive in reducing caps leading to potential charges. This is the nature of the way they operate. Data charges are in their DNA.