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"Unimpeachable Src" <squirrel@echelon.alias.net> wrote in message
news:76f9684ac55413942690f206280a8b1b@anonymous.poster...
> Sympatico Screws Self and Customers
>
> TORONTO Ont. -- Bell Sympatico, the major provider of broadband
> internet services to Canadians, has rolled out it's new pricing
> structure.  The service, called HSE, or High Speed Edition, will
> almost double in price, and customers will now be limited to only 5
> gigabytes per month of download, after which they'll pay $10 per
> gigabyte.
>
> The changes come on the heels of a major shake-up at Sympatico's
> parent company, Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE),which culminated in the
> abrupt departure of Jean Monty, the free-spending CEO. BCE posted
> huge losses for the quarter.
>
> Customers are indignant.  'What the fuck,' posted one of them to the
> HSE internal newsgroup, 'I subscribed to this service to play games
> and watch streaming video.  Do these bastards think I'm going to pay
> them 300 bucks a month?'
>
> Another sees it as a part of plot by the CRTC (the Canadian FCC) to
> restrict entertainment content delivered over the internet.
>
> Many are just quietly canceling their service. No one knows how many
> have left, and Sympatico is mum on the subject, but it's a trickle
> that's turning into a stream as the notices get sent out one by one.
>
> One poster foresees a 'PR debacle' when customers who fail to
> read the notices that Sympatico has sent out by e-mail get dinged for
> as much as a thousand dollars in excess bandwidth charges at the end
> of next month.
>
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