[mythtv-users] Network terminals, regulation, and regulation avoidance

[Dennis Cartier]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

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> I suspect the days of unlimited bandwidth are short.
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Here in Canada, this is quickly coming to pass. Here each regional market
has 1 Telco and 1 Cable provider and these duopolies came to the realization
that they could limit competition and maximize their profits by placing ever
shrinking bandwidth caps on their subscribers. Hardly surprising as these
same companies have recently purchased Satellite and TV networks (Rogers,
Bell Canada) and now see the internet as something to be reigned in and
doled out in as small as portions as possible. This is also leading to  the
stamping out the smaller ISP's who were dependent on the big networks for
carriage (Bell Canada) and used the lack of bandwidth caps as a selling
feature.

... but I am not bitter!

Dennis

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