Dear Mr. Rathgeber and Mr. Clement,
I am writing this to express my extreme displeasure about the current ruling by the CRTC to allow basically metered internet in Canada. First off the CRTC is a regulator for television and radio, it has vested interest in seeing those formats continue and therefore is not in a position to make a ruling like this. Also the costs for bandwidth from companies such as Telus, Rogers, Shaw and Bell is almost next to nothing, and are already gorging the consumer when it comes to "Internet Costs". In many forward thinking countries Internet Access has been made a human rights (In case your out of touch you can read about it on Wikipedia). Essentially if you want to kill all 21st century innovation you will allow this ruling to stand. If you need an expaination of why allowing this ruling to stand it will kill all Innovation in Canada here it is. First off you will never see any kind of "Facebook" be created in Canada, the cost to host such a website on a home or small business server will be to expensive if it ever caught on and took off. Small Print shops would no longer be able to afford to host FTP servers for clients to send them files. A proper 10' x 5' popup display that you see at tradeshows usually are around 1 - 2 gigabytes in size. So say you do 6 a week on top of other print files that are say on average of 300 - 500mb you will quickly use up your quota and get a huge bill from one of the four large ISPs. Now that you can get services like Netflix, online gaming with games such as WOW, Starcraft II, etc, you are talking about homes that use huge amounts of bandwidth. Not to mention people that use offsite backup companies such as carbonite. Here is what the current Bell Bandwidth Cap the Telus Caps and Shaw Caps are. I implore you to over turn this ruling because it is the wrong ruling for Canada. It is easy to see how someone can over their bandwidth cap, and what's waiting for us consumers who are unaware we are approaching or have surpassed our bandwidth limit? A Huge Bill which has been billed per gigabyte as compared to being moved to the next tier of service.I urge you, stand up for Canadians, Innovation in the long run is more important then short term monetary gain.Trevor Tye
http://www.optionkey.ca
