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Old 02-10-2011, 06:16 AM   #524
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Originally Posted by ikaris View Post
The big difference is Telus doesn't charge anything even if there website indicates otherwise.

Telus on the record to CTV said they wouldn't be charging for overages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1ItlDwebRc&t=1m44s
How is that a big difference? Shaw never charged anyone any overages either, they just had it on their website.

It isn't really surprising that, in the aftermath, Telus has come out and said they don't want to charge, because they saw the huge backlash that Shaw got when they started moving towards it. If they had no intention of charging for it then why have it in their contracts? Why make the claim that they 'can't' yet track the traffic to make it possible?

Telus comes out smelling like roses on this because they adopted a wait and see attitude about actually putting it into practice. In hindsight, it was clearly a genius move and I have no doubt it will net them a huge amount of customers.
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