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Article #41781Re: Canadian ISP Makes Really Bad Decision
From: Cameron
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 16:05
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 16:05
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Dave, They have a right to change their offerings. Move with the market. It is you choice to keep them as your vendor/supplier/ISP. No company can put the screws to a customer unless they are a monopoly. Bell is no longer that. This is not bait and switch. Be a good consumer and go someplace else if you can't take the big Sympatico pill. Cameron "Dave Smith" <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:3CE6AC35.9A445761@sympatico.ca... > 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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