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Originally Posted by photon
Or turn data into a utility.
Look at how Shaw/Rogers/Telus/Bell market their television services, with tiers and groups of services structured to push you into buying more addons to get the channels you want. I'm sure they'd love to do that with the Internet too. Unlimited bandwidth for these 10 sites, $5 more to add unlimited bandwidth for this other group of sites, etc. Mobile carriers do the same thing, any service type product is going to try and increase profits by shuffling their existing products into forms that get people to pay more.
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Violates net neutrality and everything the Internet represents. This would be a sure fire way to guarantee Canada falls behind the rest of the world in technology innovation.
I hope our Government isn't dumb enough to allow this situation to happen. Though I'm sure some would see it as valuable to be able to buy access to facebook and hotmail for $5 per month. I wonder what the tech support call for someone with a plan like that trying to access some lolcat picture outside of their zone will sound like...