I just wanted to do some quick math to figure out how much extra ISPs could potentially charge for a month's worth of internet.
Check out This video and this website trying to stop the money grab.
For the Shaw Extreme package, the price is $57 per month. This plan gives you 15Mbps down and 1Mbps Up, for a total of 16Mbps or 2Mb 16Mb / 8 bits.
You have a 100GB limit on this plan. To reach this monthly limt it would take 13.8 hours. Thanks for this equation Chris Anderson!
100GB = 100,000MB / 2MBs = 50,000 seconds = 833 minutes = 13.8 hours
Lets take the shortest month of the year 28 days (28days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds) = 2,419,200 possible seconds in a month (672 hours). So if you where to use all your available internet you would have used (2MBs * 2,419,200) = 4,838,400MB or 4,838GB.
Shaw charges $1 per gigabyte over the 100Gb limit. (4,838 - 100Gb) * 1 = $4,838. If you use all your bandwidth in a given month you could now be charged $4,838 per month.
Many home users who don't watch much online won't be heavily effected by this change. But what about:
Go to the stop the meter website.
