Rogers Cable Plans Fees to Curb Bandwith Hogs

jeremyd writes: "Major Canadian broadband provider plans to charge heavy users higher monthly access fees as high as $80 per month. Read the article here from the Globe and Mail. If only the world would protest. What's the point of high speed broadband access if you can't use it to full potential without having to start selling organs to pay the bills?"

Who cares about them companies, I want free stuff!

[wickidpisa]

If only the world would protest.

Yeah! I'm with you. I mean, it's not like banwith costs cable companies money or anything! In fact, why don't they just give me free high speed internet access. I'm entitled to bandwith by birthright, who do these companies think they are witholding it from me.

Seriuosly though, if you don't like the price, don't buy it. Yes it may be true that they have a monopoly on high speed internet in a certain area, but is that really surprising when broadband companies are going bankrupt all over because of people are unwilling to pay for the bandwith they think they "deserve"?

Confusing Slashdot Headline Coredumps Reader

[JohnPM]

Am I the only one to totally hang when reading that headline? It read like 3 different nouns to me. "Rogers Cable Plans", "Fees to (the) Curb" and "Bandwidth Hogs". I just couldn't figure out how they were related.

I need a lie down...

How exactly fast is a high-speed Internet service?

[Shiny Metal S.]

I don't know what exactly does the high-speed Internet service mean, but I'd love to pay $80/month for what I consider a high-speed link. I live in Poland where I pay about $450/month for 768kb/s DSL... And it's not even a guaranteed bandwidth.

Re:Devil's advocate

[Jeremi]

At that point, the ISP can either: [several non-optimal remedies presented]

Or, they could do the right thing, and just reprogram their routers to dynamically bandwidth-limit the 'hogs' whenever there is bandwidth contention. Doing this would avoid pissing off their customers, save them lots of time and money that would have otherwise been spent harrassing their clientele, and solve the hogging problem.

... but oh yeah, they're a cable company. They couldn't come up with a technical solution if you wrapped it around a gold brick and beat them with it.

Organs...

[diesel_jackass]

start selling organs to pay the bills?

Damn! and all along i've been selling my organs to lose weight. why didn't i think of selling them for bandwidth?

Re:Diversification in fees is GOOD!

[kerrbear]

Why everybody here seems to be so opposed
to diversification in fees based on used
resources?
The bandwidth is not a unlimited resource.

Wow, was that an intentional Haiku? It was perfect!

Uhh, yeah, to stay on topic, I say give the people unlimited bandwidth!

Re:Shaw's a b*tch too

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, and what's the point in drinking beer unless you chug the whole keg? And why do they charge more for the keg than for a single bottle? They should charge one price for drinking beer, no matter how much I drink...