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Bandwidth charge, new policy

Goody, just in time for Xmas.

reply to sometech123
Sympatico would have to be a bit more generous with the data cap since the current average cap rate would be around 60 GB. Perhaps someone would like to post some kind of proof of the "news"? We know Quebec has this cap.

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Besides - this is not a new policy. The $1.50 per GB to a maximum of $30 existed when Sympatico tried to implement the 10 GB data cap 3-4 years ago.

reply to sometech123
I can believe it. Sympatico has never done anything that makes sense. So much for anyone ever signing up for newshosting unlimited. Any sane company would increase bandwidth caps with the falling price of bandwidth if they even had caps in the first place. Once again it will be a boon for the smaller mom and pop internet companies.

reply to matradley
I believe it's still $7.95 a gigabyte. It's $1.50 a gigabyte on the lower tier optimax.

reply to sometech123

Re: Bandwidth charge, new policy

Existing customers aren't impacted by this.
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reply to fred81
There was a post here a little while ago that was deleted and it said dec 3 for new customers.All new customers in Quebec and customers in Ontario who dont take a contract.
If I read it right the cap was 30 gig and 45 for ultra but I forget.It doesn't effect existing users in Ontario.

Shoulda copied it to a text file but I didnt think the post would get deleted.

reply to sometech123
how does this affect resellers or whole-sellers?

reply to sometech123
It's true it's not new policy but it will affect new customer as a whole excepted new Ontario Contract and later probably existing user. It sound like a test phase and they want to see the bitching about it to see if it will become standard or if they lose customers so that's why it's only the new one at the moment so bitch like hell if you don't want this to be defacto at a later time for all users.

reply to fred81
Yet... but no one will ever sign up for optimax unless they're already with sympatico soooooooooo they'll cap everyone around january 8th next year.

reply to sometech123

Re: Bandwidth charge, new policy

reply to FuckingMods

Bell obviously didn't learn from their mistake the first time they added bandwidth cap.

reply to sometech123
Cap for new users Dec 3 probably means a few more months until everyone is capped.

The only reason I'm staying with Bell now, despite the horrible speeds, is the lack of caps.

At least this will give me a reason to switch to a better service...

reply to Soiduts