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Over here, 4.5 MB/s is $70 a month and I think 18 MB is $130.
Quote from: annoyingcalc on July 18, 2013, 09:47:55 pmI just upgraded my internet connectionYou have fibre? ^^
I just upgraded my internet connection
Quote from: Sorunome on July 19, 2013, 03:51:44 amQuote from: annoyingcalc on July 18, 2013, 09:47:55 pmI just upgraded my internet connectionYou have fibre? ^^No, my real internet connection isFor some reason my ping is 70?It is usually 30ishI tricked speedtest for the above screenshot.
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 19, 2013, 12:32:18 pmOver here, 4.5 MB/s is $70 a month and I think 18 MB is $130. ZOMG that's freakin' expensive.
Quote from: Streetwalker on July 19, 2013, 02:21:00 pmQuote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 19, 2013, 12:32:18 pmOver here, 4.5 MB/s is $70 a month and I think 18 MB is $130. ZOMG that's freakin' expensive.Yeah. The issue is that Canada population is so much lower than USA that there are fewer ISPs due to lower marketing opportunities, thus, much less competition, so ISPs can jack price up as much as they want. The same happens with cellphones and is why it took so long before the 3G version of PSVita comes out here, although now it's not as bad as a few years ago when the cheapest mobile plan was $50 a month excluding extra fees.In USA, if a company had such prices, it would go bankrupt fast, but in Canada, as a customer we don't have much of a choice. Of course, governments could simply impose caps on internet fees (depending of the service) or other things like gas prices so that they must match their USA counterparts, but then those companies would just drop out of the Canadian market.