Yet another tale of consumer misery folks.
http://torrentfreak.com/rogers-bittorrent-throttling-080309/Rogers‘ new pricing scheme gets rid of the all-you-can-eat plans most ISPs offer, and charges customers for every additional gigabyte once they have reached their monthly quota. For example, customers with an “extreme plus” plan pay $99.95 a month for the first 95GB, and $1.25 for every additional gigabyte they consume.
Here’s what Rogers wrote in a letter to their customers: “With households doing more online every day - from downloading music and streaming videos to joining online communities - it’s important to have an Internet provider that evolves to meet your online needs. At Rogers, we remain committed to always providing you with the best Internet experience possible.”
Don’t get me wrong, a contentious pricing scheme makes sense. The more people consume, the more they pay, fair enough. What bothers most Rogers users is that, even with this new pricing scheme, their BitTorrent traffic is still being throttled.
Rogers was one of the early adopters of BitTorrent traffic shaping. The first reports date back to 2005, and last year Rogers even decided to block all encrypted traffic, just to make sure that BitTorrent protocol encryption didn’t work.
As many of you know WinMX users have suffered heavily from the blocking policy mentioned above due to its use of encryption, Rogers seem prepared to steal off their customers in this rather bold move, they seem not to understand you cant offer a service and not deliver it, I,m hoping Bearded agrees that to implement a contentious pricing scheme on one hand and then throttle on the other is pure robbery, I see no valid excuse for anyone to accept this kind of treatment, time to bail out on Rogers folks the faster the better.
