[mykalberta]

Telus has *had* the bandwidth caps for at least 10 years if not longer in their contracts, they have just never enforced them. This is the first time I have heard of someone actually charging for overage. That was one of the few reasons I had stuck with Shaw because I was worried for the day Telus would start charging.

With Telus there is no way they dont know the amount of bw each customer uses, they just choose for the moment not to release that data. If they decide to match the supposedly new Shaw policy then they will be releasing the data useage statistics.

I am firmly on the side of traffic shaping at peak times rather than bandwidth charges. Bandwidth is essentially free, the only expense is the infrastructure and maintenance required.

Also, considering the less dense living environment in Canada, its unfair to compare what we pay vs Europe, Japan etc. The US is the closest fair comparison there is and even they dwarf our population density.