Comments on: Netflix exec: Canada’s broadband caps “almost a human rights violation”

By: Wade Friesen

Wade Friesen — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:57:10 +0000

Canada is big, but southern Ontario is not. Even with enough people in rural areas we are still lucky to get anything better than basic wireless broadband. Bell keeps slowing down smaller ISPs development.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:49:27 +0000

CRTC desrves to be shut down. Bell, Rogers, Shaw, Videotron should all go to jail. Caps at 2GB???? $10 per GB????? Imagine you are a Web designer and you need Internet?? Imagine how you could stay in business with monthly internet bills close to $100 for just over 5GB????? Suck it up people. There are many people way worse off than you in Canada. and to think… 10 min from the 401, 10 min from the 416, 20 min from the Capital of Canada? Imagine telling your daughter now she cant use Facebook or YouTube anymore????? THEY ARE SCREWIING US!!!!!!

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:53:44 +0000

Get Primus Canada idiots. No caps, under $50, 7 MBps and don’t look back. Not hard. Leave the big ISPs for the secondary ones, and they won’t be so big for long.

By: Idlemind

Idlemind — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:51:39 +0000

Ontario is the must heavily cabled area in the world. The government is in bed with Rogers. The caps are because Netflix came onto the scene and threatened the bottom line, end of story.

By: Anti ISP?

Anti ISP? — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:58:31 +0000

Propose a law against ISP such as Videotron, Bell and Shaw,etc : No limit for all customers that pays in time their bills. or at least increase the limit to a normal 250-300+GB/month wich will be only fair for those that like me pay 130$/month(trio) for 20Mb/s D 2Mb/s U for a dam 220GB and a 50$ if I go over the limit.

By: Mark P

Mark P — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:27:22 +0000

I hate companies that cap, shame on them all. Cell phones used to charge by the minute (sorry if yours still does), are we going backwards? My broadband has no cap, for now. HOWEVER Netflix is the biggest bandwidth hog around. One Netflix stream eats almost 6 times more bandwidth than a Hulu stream. I bet if everyone in any tall building started a Netflix stream at the same time, it would cause DOS city wide. By the way Hulu sucks now too. After a good four year run, they have turned into a coin vaccuum like Uverse, Xfinity, Netflix, etc. Does anyone know if ATT caps apply to streams from Uverse web site?

By: Frank Ohrtman

Frank Ohrtman — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:53:17 +0000

Shameless commercial announcement: I just published an ebook that digs into this a bit in terms of rural broadband entitled “I’ll Vote for You If You Make My Netflix Work” see http://www.illvoteforyouifyoumakemynetflixwork.org
It is based on the my last two years working with rural communities across Colorado in improving their respective broadband environments. If you can stream Netflix, you have broadband (per FCC 4 Mbps down 1 Mbps up). If not, you need to put “the 5 a’s” to work…

By: Ken Schauer

Ken Schauer — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:05:52 +0000

They are probably downloading alot of torrents.

By: Ken Schauer

Ken Schauer — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:36:33 +0000

I live in a very small town in Texas with DSL & get phenominal download speeds (very fue people on my node) & only pay $40 a month. you are getting ripped off @ $70 a month bro.

By: Timmy K.

Timmy K. — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:05:31 +0000

Apparently you dont know how to take a joke ?? I dont think the guy was trying to say rape is OK. I think you should relax a bit lol.