On Friday 28 March 2008, Rohan Jayasekera wrote:

This is some kind of joke, right?  You are aware that every single internet
user is paying for services?  To companies like Bell Canada whose revenue
was $4,500,000,000 (not a typo) in the last three months?

Yes, it's utterly selfish and tragic that someone who has paid for a T1
connection should actually be able to upload and download at 1.544 Mbps.  
Why, if they actually use the full capacity of the line, they're just a
bunch of thieves.  In fact, any T1 client who uses it more than once a week
to drive to church on Sundays is just a low-down scoundrel, and if they
complain that the line doesn't actually deliver 1.544 Mbps, it's pure
selfishness.

Bell, on the other hand, who sold you that T1 line, shouldn't be held to
actually deliver what they sold.  That's not how business works!  They
should able to sell T1 lines to everyone without bothering to provision for
it, and just slow down the end-user as necessary to make sure that the 500
T1 lines they sold to clients don't exceed the capacity of the one T1 line
they use as an upstream connection.  That's just good business practices,
nothing shady in there at all.

Rohan, I'd like to sell you a new car.  It will have up to 4 wheels and up
to one engine and up to 4 seats inside.  Also, I get to revise the deal any
time after you've purchased the car.  I might revise it to have fewer seats
or engines or wheels, but the amount you paid for the car will not be
revised downwards.  Don't complain if I revise it though; that's just
selfish.  Keep making your monthly payments and STFU.

Not everyone in Canada is familiar with the product offerings in the rest of
the world regarding broadband.  In most industrialized nations, you can get
a broadband connection ten times as fast as anything offered in Canada for
half the price, with no throttling.  Canadians are paying monopoly prices
(high!) for monopoly levels of service (low!).  You can either do something
about this situation or you can be like Rohan, "Thank you sir may I have
another beating?"

Michael Sims