Unfortunately the contract has something in it that states they can change it any time with 30 days notice. I got the letter May 12, and in effect June 12. Nothing like giving extra notice.
An to further this, I left Rogers cable internet 4 month ago. Sympatico was offering 5 Month 1/2 price (24.95/month) and 1 month free if you signed up on the internet. Phoned and they told me that I would be charged the extra transfer over the 24.95! It's still going to cost me more with the extra charges than their regular monthly rate. And to further insult, if you buy your own modem and return the rental (they charge $10/month for it) they will not remove the rental fee, the agreement stated that you must rent their modem... What monopoly? Not Bell Canada! Oh well the ISP I'm moving to lets me buy the modem, and only charges $33.95/month. Unfortunately they resell the service from Bell Canada which runs Sympatico and owns bellnexxia their Canadian backbone. They could not tell me if there were going to be usage charges in the future, I guess it depends on what MaBell charges them. Sympatico states that 5% of their users are using this extra bandwidth. I wonder how many of these high usage people are the ones that recommend internet services to their friends and clients. Being a web developer and having a server farm hosted on a 10 meg fibre connection I run into 2 or 3+ people a week that ask who's high speed service to use. I wonder who I'll recommend next.... I believe if you were using a dial-up connection constantly all month (be hard to do) you'd be at about 60 Gig. of usage... Go figure. Anyone in London, Ontario, Canada looking for alternative service try Skynet.ca or Golden.net, both have good prices of 33.95, and 29.95 per month respectively. Ian. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Morton Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DSL charges based on monthly traffic >Effective June 12, 2002, your monthly rate for Bell Sympatico High >Speed Edition(TM) Internet service will allow 5 Gigabytes (GB) download >and 5 Gigabytes (GB) upload of bandwidth activity. If your bandwidth >activity exceeds either 5 GB download or 5 GB upload, an additional >charge of $7.95 per GB will be applied to your Sympatico account. So they changed your contract. IANAL, but in most developed countries, this is against the law unless you agree to it. However, check your original contract carefully for loopholes that allow this kind of thing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
