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sometech123
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2006-Nov-28 4:26 am
Bandwidth charge, new policyThere will be a new price plan. They will put 30 gigs cap for new customer starting somewhere in December. It will be 1.50$ per additional gig, up to 30$. For the moment the current Sympatico users will keep it unlimited for the time being. There will be no way out of this for new order excepted for Ontario contract HSE or Ultra, I guess it's probably because of a glitch in their system or some kind of marketing strategy but anyway it gonna smoke. |
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2006-Nov-28 6:48 am
Goody, just in time for Xmas. |
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 matradley
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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. |
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bohn
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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. |
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I believe it's still $7.95 a gigabyte. It's $1.50 a gigabyte on the lower tier optimax. |
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Re: Bandwidth charge, new policyWhen will Bell make this announcement and when will they cap existing HSE customers? I consume anywhere between 20GB - 100GB a month so I will have to find a new ISP if this is true. |
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Deadpool0
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2006-Nov-28 11:41 am
Existing customers aren't impacted by this. |
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 andyb
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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. |
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how does this affect resellers or whole-sellers? |
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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. |
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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. |
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Deadpool0Go Sens Go
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Re: Bandwidth charge, new policy |
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said by FuckingMods :
Because the mod is fuckhead, he deleted the post. That explains it.
No. It was deleted because what was posted is copyrighted material. |
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Bell obviously didn't learn from their mistake the first time they added bandwidth cap. |
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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... |
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Doci
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2006-Nov-28 4:37 pm
said by ForeverBlind:The only reason I'm staying with Bell now, despite the horrible speeds, is the lack of no caps. |
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Deadpool0Go Sens Go
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said by Soiduts:Bell obviously didn't learn from their mistake the first time they added bandwidth cap. Actually I think they did...last time it was a blanket change for everyone whereas now it's only new customers coming on that are affected by this. It's a much better approach...IMO. |
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HiVolt
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2006-Nov-28 5:17 pm
said by Deadpool0:It's a much better approach...IMO. Not for attracting new customers. Maybe there was too high influx from people dropping throttled cable that went to DSL? |
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andyb
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2006-Nov-28 5:20 pm
going from unlimited to a cap way below rogers is very disturbing and not a good approach for getting new customers,let alone keeping the ones they have.They will put caps across the board,its a matter of when. |
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said by Deadpool0:said by FuckingMods :
Because the mod is fuckhead, he deleted the post. That explains it.
No. It was deleted because what was posted is copyrighted material. I seriously doubt a post, any post, would be or actually was deleted on the basis of copyrighted material. There is ample room within copyright law which allows for "fair use". Someone posting internal communications or making something public has zero to do with copyright issues. From what I saw and read of the post that was deleted, it was truly a bad call by whatever Mod who deleted it. Come on, what was the objective? To squash information? It certainly wasn't a copyright issue. Off-topic Rant: As a Bell Sympatico customer of many years, its always irks me that I get zero communications from the company that I pay lots of money to. I never, and I mean never, ever get any information whatsoever, as to what's actually taking place within the various service plans. It's sad when I have to first go to places like BBR to find out what's actually going on.  |
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said by Soiduts:Bell obviously didn't learn from their mistake the first time they added bandwidth cap. They did, they are increasing it from 5 to 30.  |
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HiVolt
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2006-Nov-28 6:13 pm
LOL 30GB is a joke. You can do 45GB a day easily maxed out on 5meg. |
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said by Dark Shoes:I seriously doubt a post, any post, would be or actually was deleted on the basis of copyrighted material. The post was deleted because it was a copy/paste of an internal document reserved to employees, and its presence violates the non-disclosure agreement of the person who did post it. BBR does not condone this, if you're not happy about it, contact either me or Justin about it, if you rant about it publicly, I'll go rambo. |
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I guess the anon posters deserve some thanks for the info they've been saying is comming for the past little while.
thanks, thats all. |
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andyb
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andyb
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2006-Nov-28 9:37 pm
they are entilted.The ones who post anon with garbage are not. |
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 Bender2000Bite My Shiny Metal Ass
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Re: Bandwidth charge, new policywell...this just means the existing users will get the caps a little later. They're not going to keep existing users cap free forever if new users are capped. If that happens, hopefully Videotron will keep their highest speed tier uncapped. Much faster, and would cost the same when you include the over charges from Bell. |
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anonymonon
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2006-Nov-28 10:35 pm
Yup agreed. Videotron will kick their ass. |
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