ISP's slowly tightening screws on customers

Again my cable company raised their prices, lowered bandwidth caps and rasied throttling, I went around isp websites in Canada and the U.S, only to find all the major providers are doing the same, the arugument from them are heavy download usage, and to me that argument is going by the weyside, sure there are heavy downloaders but in my opinion, its not as bad as the isp's say, the prices on major highspeed companies are almost the same everywhere, the smaller dsl providers who are offering cheaper rates with no throttling are either getting bought up by the majors or they are being forced out of business by the phone companies they lease the lines from, it looks like the isp's are taking the business motto from the oil companies by getting rid of the small guy, and all the big guys raise their price at the same time, I just dropped my 10 mbit service down to 7 mbit and save $10 a month, the rep tried in vain to keep me at the 10mbit service and would not give up and finally I had enough of that, I was speaking to them nice and calmly and saw this was going no where so I ended up yelling at them, my exact words were drop me to the 7 mbit service right f-ing now, and they did, this guy sounded like he worked for bestbuy pushing extended warrenties, I did not want to get rude with anybody for any reason but it looks like these companies are going to fight you if you want to pay less, so whats going to be next these isp's are going to come up with.

 

Would you mind editing your post, and putting in some punctuation? It's hard reading one huge sentence.

 

His comma key works really good.

 

It seems ridiculous that they would put a lower bandwidth cap on, but insist you stick with a faster service.

I'm slightly thrilled about the recent agreement between Comcast and BitTorrent though. It means I won't get so horribly screwed over (I hope).

 

Well, you got your wish. He included punctuation. It's still 1 huge sentence, but there are commas in it now.


Downloads are becoming a lot more common now. Games/movies/videos/music/youtube/youtube-like sites/porn all contribute to heavy downloading.

It's not that far fetched to imagine d/l usage increasing.