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Re: Canadian ISP Makes Really Bad Decision

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From: Joe Baptista
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:14
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I have found that all DSL/Cable companies associated with a bellco or cableco to be
unethical.  to get them to respond positively comes down to community action.  our
cableco cogeco was derileck in customer service.  we organized the users and they
improved.

These companies make agreements with us and then arbitrarily violate them with bait
and switch marketing techniques.  This is diplorable and dishonest.  I have cc'ed
Van Tu Duong at sympatico and hope he redirects this complaint to the appropriate
individuals there.

i wonder how you would feel about making an application to the crtc to demand
community access to the dsl/cable loop?  i'll check back later.

regards
joe


Dave Smith wrote:

> Augustus wrote:
>
> > It all boils down to: for legit use, you should have no problem at all... if
> > you are pirating video games and movies off the net, then yeah, you got a
> > reason to complain cuz you'll be limited in how much you can download a
> > month... but then, you don't have any ground to really stand on... maybe
> > everybody does it, but nobody sympathizes with a pirate.
>
> Actually, what it boils down to is that Bell is putting the screws to its
> customers once again. I signed up for Sympatico's high speed because the cost
> was less than I was paying for unlimited access and a separate phone line, and
> when I signed up, it was for UNLIMITED. Now they have raised the price and put a
> limit on it. That's not what the original agreement was.  As technology
> advances, they should be able to handle more, and as their service expanded,
> they have more paying customers.
>
> This is bait and switch marketing. It is unethical. But then, Bell is notorious
> for bait and switch tactics.

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