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Download limits: Do they affect your internet usage?
- July 23, 2010 10:53 AM |
- By POV
Rogers Communications has lowered usage limits on some of its internet service plans. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)
By CBC News
Rogers Communications, the country's second-biggest internet provider, is lowering the usage limits on some of its plans, just days after online video streaming service Netflix announced it was expanding into Canada.
The company lowered the data transfer limits Wednesday on several of its service plans in Ontario, its main market. Users who signed up for the cable company's "Extreme" service after July 21 will be allowed 80 gigabytes of monthly usage, versus 90 GB for those who signed up before.
Customers who sign up for the "Lite" service will now get 15 GB, versus 25 GB before.
The company, which has 1.6 million internet subscribers -- second only to Bell Canada -- did not explain the changes and a spokesperson did not have a comment.
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Do usage limits affect how you use the internet? Do you regularly exceed your limit? Are you paying fees because of it? Tell us below.
By CBC News
Rogers Communications, the country's second-biggest internet provider, is lowering the usage limits on some of its plans, just days after online video streaming service Netflix announced it was expanding into Canada.
The company lowered the data transfer limits Wednesday on several of its service plans in Ontario, its main market. Users who signed up for the cable company's "Extreme" service after July 21 will be allowed 80 gigabytes of monthly usage, versus 90 GB for those who signed up before.
Customers who sign up for the "Lite" service will now get 15 GB, versus 25 GB before.
The company, which has 1.6 million internet subscribers -- second only to Bell Canada -- did not explain the changes and a spokesperson did not have a comment.
Read more.
Do usage limits affect how you use the internet? Do you regularly exceed your limit? Are you paying fees because of it? Tell us below.
(This poll is not scientific. It is based on readers' responses.)
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