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Originally Posted by Rathji
I agree that the limits dropping are a big part of why Shaw customers are unhappy.
As for the price per GB, $2/GB is way too expensive, you are 100% correct, but you are overlooking the fact that they had many options, including data buckets or upgrading to another plan to avoid that charge. The same way you don't get a 100 minute plan on your cell phone, then use 200 and complain about the bill. To be honest, anyone who uses that much bandwidth should be on Extreme to start, so the real numbers we should have been discussing are $1/GB .
Although, all really doesn't matter now. We just need to wait for Shaw (and Telus I suppose) to figure out what they want to do.
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I'm on the Extreme and I swear my overage charges are $2 - but I can't seem to find that info on the new site. I remember this because it only enraged me more - the Extreme package is marketed to sell based on speed, but the corresponding data cap doesn't increase to match the jump in speed (it's nearly a 2 to 1 ratio). Which means that you can achieve your data cap faster and get punished for going over even more due to the higher penalty.
Translates directly into a cash grab. There is no reason the data overage charge should be different on any of the packages.
I assume Shaw has removed all explanation for data caps pending their reassessment - I can't even find the information documenting the data packages anymore.