Bell Canada to Cap Competition to as Low as 2GB a Month Down Per User

[Jorge]

You know competition is almost non-existent when one 'competitor' can decide what other competitors can and cannot do in the market.

Just when Bell thought the controversy and bad publicity around it's company couldn't get any worse, it did. The CBC is reporting that Bell Canada is now going to put download limits on its own wholesalers.

The report details a plan to cap people that have a connection speed of 512kb/s or slower to have a 2GB monthly limit with extra charges if users go over. For faster internet users who have connection speeds of about 5MB/s, that cap on a per user basis goes up to 60GB.

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[Signa]

shit. i dont know even if i dropped my p2ping COMPLETLY if i could not reach that cap. i do a lot of browsing, and some online videos can be a hundred megs or so. i remember saving the team roomba TF2 greifing videos and those were like 120MB each. thats like 1/10th of the alloted bandwith right there in those 20 mins of video glee