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In the west, we've got SHAW who recently lowered bandwidth caps without changing the price and are charging for any overages, and Telus who are not yet charging for overages but they try to lock you in on contracts and also have caps. For a 15/1 pipe you pay about $60/month.

The problem is since all of the major ISPs also provide television they are effectively attempting to get rid of netflix as competition by placing such restrictions on our access.

http://openmedia.ca/ has been campaigning to get rid of the caps in Canada. Quite a fair bit of interesting reading and it's nice to see it gaining momentum lately.

EDIT for the typo.



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