Rogers a Screwy Bunch

So I've been thinking for a while of ditching my Bell cell plan for a shiny new Rogers smartphone plan. Unfortunately I just discovered that if I want to get the good voice and data "Deal" (if thats what you call price gouging), I HAVE to sign up for 3 years, chaining myself to there exorbitant prices. If I try on their website to sign of for a 1 year contract *poof* the Voice and data plan disappears leaving only the voice plan as an option. To then get data on top of that you would have to add it to you contract separately for a higher monthly cost. Things like this make me really wonder how much time and money Rogers devotes to the fine science of putting the screws to the customer as much as possible. I can only hope that Ontario's 3 new cellphone providers really take off and setup shop in my area.   

CRTC Helps out Big Bell and Screws Canadians Again!

According to CBC news the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission has approved Bells proposal to allow billing based on bandwidth-usage.

Bells side of the story, is that high volume users like customers downloading files using bittorrent are slowing its networks and its solution is if you use more bandwidth downloading movies, games etc you'll have to pay more. This is all fine and dandy for illegal movies and the like but what about the several legal high bandwidth applications like Steam or youtube? are they trying to send us back to the days when all we used the net for was email!?

For anyone thinking "oh I only use my internet for email anyways, so my bill should be lower right?" no that wont happen  would Bell ever do anything to put itself into a position where it would be making less money? I doubt it. Rates for minimal users will be the same and for the majority they will be higher.

I guess severely screwing Canadians for the cellphones wasn't enough, now they want to do it to us again with our internet.
  

Skype 2 Go for Canadians... Sorta

Skype has Released Skype 2 Go for Canadians, yay! Now the bad news, at least for me I live in the 519/226 area code. Unfortunately I live near London and the 2 Go number they give me to call is based out of Kitchener/Waterloo area, which is still long distance for me. Which is totally pointless since I get charged long distance for a service design to negate long  distance costs.

Hopefully they add some London numbers soon, it is the 10th largest city in Canada, kinda a big market if you ask me.