Anyone looked at their shaw bill lately?
 

So shaw is going to start charging for over usage according to the http://www.dslreports.com/forum/shaw and their site
I just called Telus and moved everything over cuz I rage at them not notifying me anything at all in bills or by phone.

Hmm may consider switching after if I notice anything fishy thanks!

massive thread here:
http://www.revscene.net/forums/chang...t-t632852.html

and it's all over the news lately.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions...mkagkaobkdcdal

you can see your usage via this extension, cant do it thru their stupid site
but yeah its 15-15-15 promo atm for the 1st year on 3yr contract with telus and 10 dollars per month for cancellation before term expires which works out to be ok if something bad happens to telus as well and shaw becomes good again. But for now.... here I come Optik Turbo 25mbps yeyeye. Getting everything installed next monday!

ahhh right should of gone over there but some of us are off topic lurkers thus i didnt see it lol

but yeah, at 513GB overusage, I see myself royally screwed lol

Luckily, I have a server for reasons such as these to do my middleman torrenting. But yeah, I blame PPS and Bluray rips.

hilarious...exact same thing happened to us...we're switching to telus as of next month. Shaw's gonna lose a lotta customers :-D

yep and dont forget telus also upgraded their infrastructure to compete with shaw and what have shaw done? just increased prices lulz

Fuuuuuuuu shaw. if I see anything on my bill I'm fsure switching to Telus. Plus ill get a brand spanking new Xbox :D
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So Telus does not have an internet usage cap?

^they do but as far as I've read they are not really strictly enforcing it, is anyone else having trouble with the google chrome extension ? I downloaded it and it says unable to connect for me =/

I don't see the problem. This is a GOOD change by Shaw.

If you haven't seen it in the thread in the Computer section, TekSavvy has recently begun to offer Cable internet in the GVA as well.

They have a few plans with unlimited bandwidth caps.

Shaw is kind of missing a piece between Extreme and Warp. To pay almost $100/month for the internet is a little hard to swallow for most. Something along the lines of $65/month with service in between the Extreme and Warp offering should be well received by the consumers.

Premium-grade transit in a data centre costs $0.05 to $0.10 per GiB when you work it out. The CEO of Teksavvy is on record saying that the per GiB cost to them is in the $0.01 to $0.03 range for consumer-grade transit.

The problem is not, in my mind, usage-based billing. I would be perfectly fine if they charged $15 a month for the line itself and then billed $0.05 per GB. Use 5 GB? Pay $0.25 on top of the line fee. Use 500 GB? Pay $25. Given the theoretical limit of a 5 megabit line is about 1500 GB a month, truly unlimited Internet seems quite reasonable for $50 a month on the assumption that your customer will only be downloading at full speed 30 - 50% of the time (which is quite a lot!)

Except that's not what they're doing, they want to charge something in the realm of 100x or more what it actually costs them to provide the service! $1.25 per GiB. $2.00 per GiB. What the hell is this? 1991? we're upset to have but no choice (yay monopolies!) to pay hundreds of times what it actually costs the companies to provide the service!

They're doing this solely to kill competing video-on-demand services. They're using their monopoly in one field (ISP) to guarantee their profits in another (content provision). It's disgusting and I can't believe it's not illegal.

If the power company suddenly raised the cost per KWh from $0.09 to $4.25, even though you knew it only cost them $0.08 per KWh to generate the electricity, would you be fine with that?

i hate it when shit like this happens . everyone in this world is just so shady now adays all they care about is money

One of the reasons that companies are loathe to charge a minimal fee for basic line + usage is the revenue peaks and valleys they would then experience.

Rather than a steady stream of income plus bonuses, they would receive constantly fluctuating results--never good for a large publicly traded company that does its best to create accurate revenue projections for shareholders.
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Some how in november i used 88gb, december 340 gb, current month at 68gb..
wtf? Lol

People that DL a lot will be hit the most, but for me personally, I use Shaw highs-speed internet and my bandwidth limit each month is capped at 60GB. Don't think I've ever gone over that from all the years I've been a customer.

Most people are capped but Shaw never charged for going over. How did you know you were not going over?

Those who are not in favor of these changes might want to support this page:

http://openmedia.ca/meter

Thanks..

I know I'm not going over because most of the time when I am online, it's for leisure internet browsing (RS, FB, email, read some news) and a few movies and music downloaded in a given month. So assuming for example, I use 30Gb for media (video + music), that leaves 30GB for other usage, which I doubt will exceed the 60gb cap.

Lot of asians that stream movies/shows on ppstream and funshion are probably going over too.

You don't think in the future you will ever go over 60 gigs. What if you get netflix a PS3 or something else?

I can see a lot of Shaw employees getting laid off :lol