🚀 go-pugleaf

Thank You!
And - To Hell with Bell. The have the money to just
install "Bigger Lines". Take the loss, and recoop the
diff. in the long run.


"Dave Smith" <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:3CEFC563.78AC1F48@sympatico.ca...
> Ron Kritzman wrote:
>
> > Dave Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > It is not all you can eat, but not more than three crab legs.
> >
> > What it boils down to is that people have no common sense when it
> > comes to the use of shared facilities.
> >
> > Picture the crab leg scenario at home.  Mom passes around a plate of
> > crab legs and one of the kids shovels them all onto his own plate.
> > We know what comes next.  Mom makes him put them back, then allows
> > him to take a normal portion.  If the kid does this all the time, or
> > if all the kids do it, Mom will estsblish a "house rule" of 3 crab
> > legs per serving.
>
> You're talking apples and oranges. When mom takes in a boarder and
> offers all you can eat, things change. Sympatico charges higher rates
> for unlimited DSL than it does for dial up connections. Part of the
> marketing spiel was about how telephone lines and dial up connections
> only use a small fraction of the line's capacity and the Hi Speed
> Edition makes use of the extra capacity.
>
> I t would seem that some here buy the Bell argument that making full use
> of the HSE that customers subscribed to is taxing their system and
> causing problems. I have not experienced those problems, but having seen
> enough of Bell's marketing strategy in the past, it looks more like they
> encouraged people to switch from other providers to their service.
> Having stifled their competition, they now want to gouge their users.
>
> The business/government agenda these days is pushing for reduced
> regulation and increased competition. A well regulated system would have
> required businesses like Bell to show that they could provide the
> service they offer before being allowed to offer it.
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