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Canadian Gov Okays Metered Internet Service Huge Windfall For Canadian Telecoms! They Get Rich -You Pay!

CANADIAN TELECOMS EXTORTING HIGHER FEES AS THEY INSTALL TOLL METERS ON CANADIANS' INTERNET SERVICE!

200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet

Metered Internet usage (also called "Usage-Based Billing") is coming to Canada, and it's going to cost Internet users. While an advance guard of Canadians are expressing creative outrage at the prospect of having to pay inflated prices for Internet use charged by the gigabyte, the consequences probably haven't set in for most consumers. Now, however, independent Canadian ISPs are publishing their revised data plans, and they aren't pretty.

"Like our customers, and Canadian internet users everywhere, we are not happy with this new development," wrote the Ontario-based indie ISP TekSavvy in a recent e-mail message to its subscribers.

But like it or not, the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved UBB for the incumbent carrier Bell Canada in September. Competitive ISPs, which connect to Canada's top telco for last-mile copper connections to customers, will also be metered by Bell. Even though the CRTC gave these ISPs a 15 percent discount this month (TekSavvy asked for 50 percent), it's still going to mean a real adjustment for consumers.

This is going to hurt

Starting on March 1, Ontario TekSavvy members who subscribed to the 5Mbps plan have a new usage cap of 25GB, "substantially down from the 200GB or unlimited deals TekSavvy was able to offer before the CRTC's decision to impose usage based billing," the message added.

By way of comparison, Comcast here in the United States has a 250GB data cap. Looks like lots of Canadians can kiss that kind of high ceiling goodbye. And going over will cost you: according to TekSavvy, the CRTC put data overage rates at CAN $1.90 per gigabyte for most of Canada, and $2.35 for the country's French-speaking region.

Bottom line: no more unlimited buffet. TekSavvy users who bought the "High Speed Internet Premium" plan at $31.95 now get 175GB less per month.

"Extensive web surfing, sharing music, video streaming, downloading and playing games, online shopping and email," could put users over the 25GB cap, TekSavvy warns. Also, watch out "power users that use multiple computers, smartphones, and game consoles at the same time."

You need "protection"

Here's the "good" news: TekSavvy users can now buy "insurance," defined as "a recurring subscription fee that provides you with additional monthly usage." For Ontario it's $4.75 for 40GB of additional data (sorry, but the unused data can't be forwarded to the next month).

There are also "usage vault" plans—payments made in advance for extra data. Consumers can buy vault data for $1.90/GB up to 300GB in any month.

Where once TekSavvy consumers could purchase High Speed Internet Premium at a monthly base usage of 200GB for $31.95 a month, now they can get about half of that data (if they buy two units of insurance) at $41.45 a month.

TekSavvy's DSL rates: now and after March 1

Very questionable

Starting to hate this? TekSavvy hates it, too.

"The ostensible, theoretical reason behind UBB is to conserve capacity, but that issue is very questionable," noted the ISP's CEO Rocky Gaudrault on TekSavvy's news page. "One certain result though, is that Bell will make much more profit on its Internet service, and discourage Canadians from watching TV and movies on the internet instead of CTV, which Bell now owns."

Given these dramatic changes, and the fact that ISPs around the world have made clear they wouldn't mind implementing similar schemes, it's no wonder that high-bandwidth businesses are fighting back. Last week, for instance, Netflix started publishing graphs of ISP performance in both the US and Canada, and it plans to update them monthly.

Netflix is also stepping up the war of words against ISPs who try to implement low caps and high overage fees:

"Wired ISPs have large fixed costs of building and maintaining their last mile network of residential cable and fiber. The ISPs' costs, however, to deliver a marginal gigabyte, which is about an hour of viewing, from one of our regional interchange points over their last mile wired network to the consumer is less than a penny, and falling, so there is no reason that pay-per-gigabyte is economically necessary. Moreover, at $1 per gigabyte over wired networks, it would be grossly overpriced."

The big question now is how these kind of billing changes will impact 'Net consumption patterns. Many subscribers use minimal data, but that's changing as Internet video becomes the norm. If these new plans simply discourage data hogs from backing up their 120GB pirated movie collection over the 'Net every night, there's no sleep to be lost. But if they scare consumers away from legitimate non-ISP affiliated movie and content sharing sites, that should be a firebell concern to consumers, entrepreneurs, and regulators.

And not only in Canada.

Boehner, Another "Family Values" Republican Bites The Dust! The Big CryBaby!

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_boehner_house_speaker_sex_scandal_two_women/celebrity/70110
THESE IDIOT PHONEY'S TALK A GOOD GAME WHEN IT COMES TO SO CALLED REPUBLICAN "FAMILY VALUES", BUT, ONCE AGAIN THEY ARE EXPOSED FOR THE HYPOCRITES THEY ARE!

The Video FOX news Deems As Too Graphic To Show On Their Network! Fox Network Filled With Porn And Violence Because That's What Gets Ratings!

THE GATEKEEPERS AT FOX NEWS DON'T WANT TO UPSET YOUR DELICATE SENSIBILITIES BY SHOWING THIS VIDEO OF PEOPLE GETTING MOWED OVER BY A CAR IN EGYPT! YOU MIGHT GET UPSET AND CALL THE FCC ON THEM!
FOX PURVEYS PORN AND VIOLENCE ON THEIR GET RATINGS SHOWS -SO WHAT IF PEOPLE GET MOWED OVER IN REAL LIFE - IT'S JUST TOO EXTREME TO ALLOW ON CABLE!

NSA Knocks Al Jazeera Offline As Israeli Commandos Storm Into Egypt En Masse

ISRAELI STORM TROOPERS SWARMING INTO EGYPT AS ISRAEL PREPARES FOR MILITARY ACTION TO TAKE TOTAL CONTROL OF SUEZ CANAL. US FORCES ON HIGH ALERT.

SIMULTANEOUS ATTACKS ON EGYPT AND IRAN WILL CULMINATE WITH PRECISION NUCLEAR STRIKES. CHINA, RUSSIA AND PAKISTAN TOLD TO, "BACK OFF"!

NSA READY TO HIT INTERNET "KILL SWITCH" HERE IN US!

NeoConArtist Bolton Wants Israel and US To Nuke Iran And Saudi Arabia! I Say GO FOR IT!

I SAY, "FUCK IT, LETS NUKE 'EM ALL"!

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the ouster of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would speed the timetable for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

"Do you think that the Israelis are going to have to strike — they are going to have to take action?" Fox News Republican opinion host Sean Hannity asked the former ambassador on his radio program Monday.

"As you pointed out, ElBaradei ran cover for the Iranians for all those years that he was with the IAEA. And, I just don’t think the Israelis have much longer to wait… they're going to have to act in fairly short order."

"I think that's right," Bolton responded. "I don't think there’s much time to act. And I think the fall of a Egyptian government committed to the peace agreement will almost certainly speed that timetable up."

Bolton chided the protests in Egypt last week, saying that "the real alternative is not Jefferson democracy versus the Mubarak regime, but that it’s the Muslim Brotherhood versus the Mubarak regime, and that has enormous implications for the US, for Israel, and our other friends in the region."

The former ambassador was appointed to his position by President George W. Bush in 2005 after facing heavy resistance from Democrats. He resigned from his position in December 2006 after failing to be confirmed by the Senate.

Bolton, a neoconservative, has a long history of promoting military strikes on Iran.

In August 2010, he warned that Israel only had eight days to launch an attack against Iran's nuclear facilities to prevent the nation from acquiring a functioning atomic plant.

"Once that uranium, once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor, certainly once they're in the reactor, attacking it means a release of radiation, no question about it," he told Fox Business Network.

"So if Israel is going to do anything against Bushehr it has to move in the next eight days."

He also predicted in June 2008 that Israel would attack Iran's nuclear sites before the next US president was sworn in.

"An Obama victory would rule out military action by the Israelis because they would fear the consequences given the approach Obama has taken to foreign policy," Bolton said. "With McCain they might still be looking at a delay. Given that time is on Iran's side, I think the argument for military action is sooner rather than later absent some other development."

Iran's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant has already been hit with a computer worm that damaged the facilities' centrifuges. The malicious code, known as "Stuxnet," is suspected to be a joint American and Israeli effort.

A recent Russian intelligence assessment warned that "Stuxnet" could cause a "Chernobyl-like disaster" should the site be switched on.

Iran continues to maintain its nuclear program is for the peaceful generation of energy, not weapons.

These Idiots Worship A Sacred Black Meteorite Encased In Silver!

YOU KNOW HUMANITY IS FUCKED WHEN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORSHIP A METEORITE!

Jihadists Rushing Into Egypt To Foment Civil War And Take Over

"Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations"
FOLLOWERS OF THE MOST EXTREME, RADICAL AND VIOLENT FORM OF ISLAM STREAM INTO EGYPT TO KILL AND DESTROY WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF TURNING THAT SECULAR COUNTRY INTO AN ISLAMIC PARADISE WHERE OVERFED MULLAHS RULE THE PEOPLE WITH AN IRON FIST AND IMPOSE THEIR BIZARRE RELIGION ONTO "NONBELIEVERS"!
“Allah is our objective; the Quran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.”
THESE RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS WON'T RELENT UNTIL THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE MUCH LIKE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN EUROPE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES, THE PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES WHO BROUGHT NOT ONLY GOD TO THE SAVAGES BUT SYPHILIS; THE EVANGELICALS IN THE UNITED STATES WHO IMPOSED THEIR WILL ON GENERATIONS OF POLITICIANS, THE NATION OF ISLAM WHO HAS SET UP NETWORKS OF MOSQUES AND CULTURAL CENTERS IN EVERY MAJOR AMERICAN CITY AS THEY PREPARE FOR A RACE WAR WITH "WHITEY"; TO THE ILLEGAL RELIGIOUS STATE OF ISRAEL WHOSE "MANIFEST DESTINY" WAS TO RETURN TO THE "HOLY LAND" DISPLACE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE SO THE COULD CREATE A "JEWISH STATE"! RELIGIOUS KOOKS FROM ALL SECTS, SEEK TO CONVERT AND TAKE OVER WHATEVER THEIR MONEY AND ARMS ALLOW THEM TO. LOOK AT THE MORMONS, THE GOLDEN PLATES WERE RETURNED TO THE ANGEL AFTER THEY WERE TRANSCRIBED! "MOONIES" EVANGELIZED NORTH AMERICA DURING THE 70' AND 80'S AND TURNED AIMLESS, DIRECTIONLESS PEOPLE INTO MINDLESS RELIGIOUS DRONES WHO SPENT THEIR DAYS AND DEVOTED THEIR LIVES RAISING MONEY FOR THEIR LEADER AND CHURCH.
REMEMBER FLYING IN THE 60's, 70's + 80's? YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT THROUGH AN AIRPORT CONCOURSE WITHOUT ENCOUNTERING HARE KRISHNA DEVOTEES
EXTORTING MONEY FROM YOU! THESE PEOPLE WERE MORE OF A HASSLE THAN THE TSA!

Mike Kelly - A Big Fat Pig And Very Rich! - A Very Disturbing E-Mail

Mike Kelly, U.S. Rep, PA-3, voted recently to repeal the healthcare legislation even though thousands in his district are suffering grievously because they have preconditions that prevent their obtaining health insurance, or have children in their 20s who cannot afford health insurance, or have no health insurance because they cannot afford the premiums. Aware of these circumstance, Mike Kelly, nonetheless, turned his back on his constituents by his vote. Mike Kelly brings no solutions to the problems facing this nation. He is an obsequious follower of John Boehner. There is no hope that Kelly will deviate from the party line.

…I am not sure people outside of the immediate Butler City area realize that Mike Kelly is married to Vicki Phillips, heiress to the Phillips Gas and Oil fortune. Mike, wealthy by his inherited car dealerships, also has the luxury of the Phillips money. Vicki grew up at “Elm Court”, the Phillips family estate in Butler. Elm Court is recognized as one America’s grandest homes by Forbes magazine. Currently Fred Koch, Jr., brother of David and Charles Koch, the billionaires who are major bankrollers of the Tea Party, owns Elm Court. Fred bought the house and added 28 million dollars worth of additions to house his rare books and manuscripts.

Mike says that he is not taking the Federal Healthcare package (and we applaud that) but in reality it makes no difference to him, he can afford the best healthcare and his not taking it is of no consequence . Most likely he has a better plan and cost and coverage are not an issue for him. Mike has stated in the past that he needed to go to the bank for a business loan for his car business. Maybe he did but did the bank do a credit check? Was there ever a question that he would not get the loan? Mike is a silver spoon kid who married a golden spoon girl and his real world is very different then most. The Congressman’s words are very different from the actual reality that most people face daily. His “real world” is something we only get to see in aerial photos of the rich and famous, (Google up Elm Court, Butler, PA and Fred Koch Jr. Butler PA.) Mike isn’t just one of the boys, he’s one of the “good ol’ boys”, and always has been.

WTF IS MIKE KELLY, A FAT, OVERWEIGHT SENIOR CITIZEN DOING IN CONGRESS? NOT ONLY IS KELLY PAUNCHY AND NEEDS VIAGARA BUT HE'S A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE WHO IS MARRIED TO AN HEIRESS! THIS CAT SHOULD BE DOWN IN SARASOTA, ENJOYING GULF OF MEXICO SUNSETS AND MARGARITAS! IDIOT AMERICA VOTED HIM INTO CONGRESS IN THE 2010 ELECTION WHEN EVEN GEORGE WASHINGTON HIMSELF COULD NOT GET RE-ELECTED! KELLY BENEFITS FROM THE AUTO BAILOUT AND HIS WIFE'S INCOME IS TAX SHELTERED WITH A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION. THE RICH PAY ZERO OR MINIMAL TAXES! ASK GE - THEY PAID NO INCOME TAXES LAST YEAR! ZERO, ZILCH, NONE! IF WE'RE LUCKY KELLY WILL GET ILL AND RESIGN!