Telecommunication companies are the worst type of corporations ever-they hold too much power in this new era of modern technology. If you use Bell for your internet provider, you've already been screwed in the ass.
They throttle your internet. They limit your download speeds on P2P. That's not good. Net neutrality is slowly dying.
If you don't know what net neutrality is, that's the term to describe a situation where everyone has a fair access to internet. Throttling your internet is slowing your internet down. Why is Bell doing this? Because there are so many people downloading enormous amount of contents that their servers are at risk. But there's a limit... Limit which they have well crossed. And you know it's bad when a company that is from another country-Google-is criticizing
our telecommunication provider.
What does this mean to you? It's not just Bell customers. When this goes allowed, other companies will do the same thing-not to maintain their servers-but
to get money. They know that internet is a valuable aspect of our lives. They're going to abuse their power to provide that. The telecommunication companies will introduce internet service plan A and B. A is more expensive. Everyone will waste their money on plan A... Why? Because they will throttle plan B users like hell. But in the end, you're not getting
faster internet by choosing plan A; you're just paying
more for the service you should have got anyways.
But that's not where my telecommunication company bashing stops.
Did you know that Bell and Telus recently announced that they'll charge you for receiving text messages? 15 cents for every text message received. Starting August. Now I'm not a heavy texter. In fact, I seldom use the text message function, for some minor reasons. I have no text message plan so it costs 15 cents per text message, I'm a slow texter anyways, and I have no friends. For the rest, texting is essentially costing you twice as much as it cost you before. 30 cents per exchange.
But why am I getting angry over it if I don't really text that much? Because there are advertising companies that will somehow figure out my number and send me spams. The solution is obvious it seems-bye Telus, hello Rogers. But what if Rogers does the same thing? We'll see. Roger's expensive plans are not worth it unless I get a lot more spams.
Rogers is being a dick too, though. You know that
iPhone that everyone's so excited about? Overpriced. Way, over priced. If you're going to get it for the 3-year contract, you better have at least $2, 600 ready, because that's how much it will cost you on the long run at the
least. Out of the 23 international carriers worldwide, Canada is charging the most for the iPhone. And it's contract will cost you about 67 dollars at least a month. That only gives you 150 minutes of airtime and 400 mb of internet. iPhone was meant to be a heavy internet browsing gadget-400 mb just took away the point of having it.
Take AT&T for example, an infamous, well-disliked iPhone carrier in US. Even they have a plan that has three times as much talk time and unlimited internet usage for a 2 year contract at the same price of the service provided by Rogers.
I thought about getting the iPhone before, but no thank you now. Even if I get the phone for free, I still wouldn't take the plunge into that kind of overpriced service fee. Oh, and there's no unlimited service, not that it matters because if there was, looking at the annoucned services, it'll probably cost about 100 dollars a month.
Of course, Apple criticized Rogers for that, and when they didn't respond, Apple gave them a "whatever, you're own your own" attitude. But deep inside, they know they screwed up, so why be stubborn about it? Proof? They redirected lots of iPhone shipments coming to Canada to Europe because they know it won't sell.
