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Rogers to charge bandwidth hogs extra
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by Rob Peters | March 27, 2008 at 06:51 pm
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In what can only be described as a torrential crackdown, Rogers may soon charge heavy downloaders a penalty of up to five bucks a Gigabyte, to a maximum of $25 a month.
Rogers Communications Inc. is gearing up to make Internet use more expensive for consumers who have a penchant for chewing up bandwidth by downloading movies or playing video games online.
The telecommunications giant already regulates the flow of traffic on its networks by giving priority to certain content; however, the changes are part of a blueprint to introduce tiered Internet service plans in June that will not only charge users for a designated connection speed, but also cap how much bandwidth they can use in a month.
Bandwidth hogs who exceed their allotted limits on Rogers's networks will face service-fee penalties of up to $5 a gigabyte, to a maximum of $25 a month.
Estimates vary, but most analysts agree that peer-to-peer and torrent-based file-sharing programs account for between 70 and 90 per cent of all online bandwidth use, and emanate from as few as 5 to 10 per cent of all users.
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at 08:08 on December 10th, 2008
I recently switched from Bell to Rogers for my internet service and I am outraged that there is a cap that I did not know about. For the past 2 months I have hit it and they have charged me $2 / GB. This displeases me as I enjoy playing online video games and viewing online video. Rogers does not have the right to limit my video gaming nor does it have the right to interfere with my video viewing habits. This would be equivalent with telling their customers that they can only watch X amount of television per month. Why don't more people protest this? Am I the only one this is happening to??
at 09:13 on December 24th, 2008
i agree, i stream alot of music and video and d.l. to my ipod. also i have 5 computers and ps3, with a computer for each member of the family i dont see it fair to cap off and then charge overagem im over this month and already charged 6 bucks, its not a huge amount but the fact is that why should i be charged more then the other guy sitting at home with one computer doing the same thing. its exactly like what you are saying. i dont know why rogers does it, its not like the internet tru rogers is blazing fast to begin with.
its clearly a money maker.