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In response to "Hey, Bery, what was the CRTC ruling exactly? My brother's had a cap with Videotron for years. 50Gb (recently increased from 40Gb). -- nm" by Mop

I don't know the exact wording, all I know is the fallout: It's now impossible to have an "unlimited" broadband connection in Canada.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Feb 2 '11, 21:07

The main ISPs were not offering an Unlimited package, which is fine. But they were required by law to resell access to their infrastructure to smaller "competitors", and those competitors were previously able to offer Unlimited packages. The ruling makes this impossible now.

(The law exists because the government partially paid for the infrastructure, so they wanted to force competition to prevent a monopoly. But then the monopoly pressured the CRTC into bowing to its demands.)

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The decision is being reversed -- (link) - Dignan Feb 2, 21:29 1
- nice. (Not that it affects me; Shaw is still allowed to do UBB, of course.) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 2, 21:33
Meh. Bandwidth caps are a way of life. But they don't have to be onerous. -- nm - Mop Feb 2, 21:08 1
- the "normal" package my ISP offers would be fine for me, I think the cap is 50 or 75GB ... I'm only on the 100 package because I got a discount - Beryllium Feb 2, 21:10

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I don't know the exact wording, all I know is the fallout: It's now impossible to have an "unlimited" broadband connection in Canada.

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