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Originally Posted by The Terminator
But that's the thing, you can't even be a Moderately heavy user. Moderate to light really, I hate when they tell you how many minutes of movie you can watch, they say that YouTube standard quality takes up 1MB a minute, which is incredibly false. Watching standard video quality on my phone takes up 50MB for 20 minutes, and the quality is terrible.
Streaming music is a huge one, you can't even listen to online radio with our internet, our neighbour was listening to a few hours a day and they got called by the ISP saying that they are the second most bandwidth user in the town.
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What Canada, in fact the whole of North America, needs to do is follow the European example. Open up the last mile to competition.
Third parties can buy access to the last mile to the subscribers home. The equipment provider gets a mandated rate from the third party which is guaranteed to give them an agreed rate of return on their investment. The amount and price of bandwidth offered to the subscriber is determined by the third party. If you compare internet access and charges in the UK or Europe to North American charges there are more choices, offering more service at lower prices than anyone could dream of in North America. And BT, Orange, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, etc. are doing very nicely despite all that.
All the "free marketeers" in North America, US and Canada, would run a mile from a real free market. What they have instead is a locked in monopoly, which suits them just fine. North American internet is pitiful.