The Shaw Customer Discussion Sessions
Written on March 23, 2011 at 9:22 pm, by wunderbar
On March 21st, I had the opportunity to attend one of the Shaw Internet Customer Consultation Sessions. It was a good session, and I had so much to say that I actually had written 1500 words down in a blog post that I completely scrapped before starting this one. That may seem excessive, but after Read more...
Bandwidth and Data – Clearing up the confusion
Written on February 9, 2011 at 8:47 am, by wunderbar
There has been a lot of confusion over Usage Based Billing over the past few weeks. There has been much debate on both sides of this issue. Unfortunately, much of this debate is being had by people who do not understand the technology behind the concept. I do not claim to be an expert, but Read more...
Shaw Delays Usage Based Billing Implementation–What Does This Mean?
Written on February 8, 2011 at 8:20 pm, by wunderbar
Shaw today announced that it is going to, at least temporarily, suspend the service which would have enabled usage based billing on their internet plans. Usage Based Billing had gone into effect on January 1, 2011. For a more detailed explanation please see my article I wrote about this here. In the press release, and Read more...
BREAKING NEWS: Shaw will NOT proceed with Usaged Based Billing immediately.
Written on February 8, 2011 at 1:22 pm, by wunderbar
This news broke a few minutes ago. Via a press Release Shaw has announced that they will be engaging in customer consultation sessions regarding usage based billing in February and March, and will not be charging any overage costs until that process is complete. There is no guarantee that this will change anything. This is Read more...
The New Shaw Reality-Bandwidth caps: wrapping it all together
Written on January 14, 2011 at 10:20 am, by wunderbar
As of January 1 of this year, Shaw has implemented some very significant changes to it’s internet pricing structure that is going to affect a great number of users in the future. They have decided to place a cap on how much data every user can download per month, and are starting to charge overage fees for Read more...
The New Shaw Reality–Bandwidth Caps: How Can I Monitor My Usage?
Written on January 11, 2011 at 6:20 am, by wunderbar
Editor’s note: This is post #3 about the new Shaw bandwidth caps. For post #1, click here. For post #2, click here. As much as we may not like this prospect, Shaw’s bandwidth caps are currently a reality. And the extremely low limits combined with increasing internet usage means that many people will have to Read more...
The new Shaw internet reality–Bandwidth caps
Written on January 7, 2011 at 8:53 pm, by wunderbar
Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a three part series about Shaw’s new bandwidth caps. For part 2 click here, for part 3 click here As of January 1, 2011, Shaw is implementing a pretty significant change into how it charges for internet service. The company is going to begin enforcing bandwidth caps on Read more...
Why the CRTC needs an overhaul – Part 1
Written on March 12, 2009 at 10:33 pm, by wunderbar
The title says it all doesn’t it? the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission(CRTC) is broken, and needs to be fixed. the problem is, is that I’m not sure if it can be. For those of you who don’t know, the CRTC is the governing body of all radio, TV, telephone, cell phone, and internet traffic Read more...