“Someone needs to step in and audit how these lawmakers come to their conclusions as predatory tactics, which last I checked were not allowed in Canada, are being allowed to march through the regulatory gates without any resistance, all while laughing in the face of both Joe competitor and Joe public.”

– Rocky Gaudrault, CEO of TechSavvy

This article, highlights the issues Canadians have been facing for some time in regards to net neutrality and fighting the “Big Boys of ISPs”. The state of Canada’s landscape is absolutely ridiculous. We pay more for internet and face more restrictions than most developed countries.

In France, you can get an 18 MB/S connection with no cap PLUS 70 TV channels PLUS Unlimited VOIP for $66 a month. And if you’re under 26? Go ahead, take another 10% off.

Compare this to Canada: For $60 a month, you can get 10Mb download speed with a 512kb upload speed and a 60GB cap. Wow. What a steal! (Thanks to @ehacke for the information on this.)

Now the CRTC has agreed to approved a request by Bell to implement a pay per usage of $0.75 for every GB over 300GB their users use. What this basically means? They’ve taken away the ability for smaller ISPs who are renting portions of Bell’s infrastructure to differentiate themselves from Bell’s service.

It seems the CRTC is against fair competition and an open marketplace. Rocky Gaudrault’s call-out to the CRTC and higher ups in the government to take an in-depth investigation into how these decisions are made is fair and I support this 110%.

As Canadians, we should really take a stand and let these bullying ISPs know that we are NOT pleased and this is NOT okay. Please email your local MP to let them know that you are pissed off that this is happening. You can find out who your local MP is here.

I wish we didn’t feel so powerless as paying customers though. Capitalism, you have failed YET AGAIN.