From the link a few posts back.
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One industry insider told Digital Home that four years ago, the cost for a large Telco to transmitting a GB of data was around twelve cents when all operational and fixed costs were accounted for. Thanks to improved technology and more powerful machines, that number dropped to around six cents two years ago and to about three cents today.
A senior staffer at one web hosting company which serves up terabytes of data a day says the cost of serving up an extra Gigabyte of data in today’s marketplace is negligible. This staffer described the extra charge of $2 to $5 per gigabyte for overages as “obscene.”
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http://www.digitalhome.ca/2011/01/us...at-can-you-do/
Again, as stated it has gotten cheaper and cheaper to deliver that 1GB. So why are they lowering the caps? It makes no sense other than being a ridiculous cash grab.
The hilarious thing here is that Shaw is mooching off a fiber network that the taxpayers paid for. Not only with the SuperNet, but with the original fiber laid out while the companies were still public. Now they want to charge us MORE for using the internet we paid for.
And I realize Telus is claiming they invested more than a billion dollars each year to constantly upgrade the network, but their profits are equally as high and rising. So its not like they're loosing money.
And congestion has never been proven provided they actually bother to keep the backbone upgraded.