<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I suspect the days of unlimited bandwidth are short.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Here in Canada, this is quickly coming to pass. Here each regional market has 1 Telco and 1 Cable provider and these duopolies came to the realization that they could limit competition and maximize their profits by placing ever shrinking bandwidth caps on their subscribers. Hardly surprising as these same companies have recently purchased Satellite and TV networks (Rogers, Bell Canada) and now see the internet as something to be reigned in and doled out in as small as portions as possible. This is also leading to the stamping out the smaller ISP's who were dependent on the big networks for carriage (Bell Canada) and used the lack of bandwidth caps as a selling feature.<br>
<br>... but I am not bitter! <br><br>Dennis<br><br>-- <br>“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side. ”<br>
<br>Hunter S. Thompson, US journalist (1939 – 2005)<br><br>