Rogers shutting down portable Internet(Inukshuk) as of march 2012. Will Bell possibly follow depending on whatever excuse to continue at customer affordable levels(a post in the dsl reports link says Bell also shutting down Inukshuk). Or since 1/2 their competition just disappeared, will prices go up while GB's of use per month go down?
A glimmer of hope is the newer rogers(and others) LTE network, bla freaking bla. Might as well put your rural home up for sale and move into the big city. If you can sell it that is. New buyers want 'high speed Internet' as a priority for a new home. Oh wait a minute... People want high speed Internet, plus a high cap on the monthly/daily/hourly bandwidth limit.
https://secure.dslreports.com/forum/r26649253-Rogers-shutting-down-Portable-Internet-service
Another thread............
https://secure.dslreports.com/forum/r26648806-Rogers-and-possibly-Bell-shutting-down-Portable-outdoor
http://www.digitalhome.ca/2011/12/rogers-shutting-down-portable-internet-service-and-moving-users-to-more-expensive-3g-service/
In a letter to customers this week, Rogers has announced it will be discontinuing its Portable Internet service on March 1, 2012.
Might as well add the instant media sound bite from those Billionaires that like taking your money and then flinging poo back at the consumers in reply: "Shutting down of the Inukshuk system will obviously be blamed on aging and failing hardware at the towers".
So why no maintenance and upgrades to keep system in good working order for years? Consumers get f*cked hard up the anus again.
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Xplornets new satellite plans for the new ViaSat1 of ViaSats that should be up and running for consumer use by February.
http://www.xplornet.com/SatPlans.aspx
ViaSat1 satellite coverage. Well at least the map shows more coverage in Canada than earlier data, now just need enough people to get off of the Anik F2 and move to the ViaSat1 in order to free up some bandwidth for the Anik F2.. Edit: Is the Prairies coverage the upgraded spot beams on the older Anik F2? You need to be aware of what satellite you are being put on, for your own technical support.
http://www.xplornet.com/4GSatCoverage.aspx
Eastern half of BC covered to far western Manitoba. Then southern Ontario to southern of east quebec. North west New Brunswick covered.
And how fast can you burn through that tiny consumer monthly limit at 5Mbps speeds? Well don't think that you can be YouTubing and NetFlixing to your hearts content. A 5Mbps speed can easily do over 100GB's per month. That is without filesharing at all.
U.S. spot beam maps....
http://highspeedinternetnow.com/wildblues-12-mbps-coverage-map
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A discussion on the new pricing of Wildblues data/speed packages. Some interesting things about how the AnikF2 speeds are going to be increased, but people possibly needing new hardware(modem/dish) to get those speeds.
https://secure.dslreports.com/forum/r26644227-New-qData-Allowanceq-packages
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CRTC complaint page...
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/rapidsccm/register.asp?lang=e
Commissioner for complaints for telecommunications services.
http://www.ccts-cprst.ca/
Open Media
http://openmedia.ca/
http://openmedia.ca/blog/lobbyists-behind-warrantless-online-spying
Warrantless spying on all your Internet data. What a Republican thing to do by Canada's Republican Prime Minister(also known as George W. Bush's servant).
DPI(Deep packet inspection) can easily harvest all your unencrypted data to see what you are doing online, or just to harvest data to be resold for profit by the ISP(note disclaimers by the ISP of 'not selling personal data', which only leaves 'aggregated data'(called 'non-personal', but can be traced back to individuals)..
Internet censorship(Great Firewall of America and Canada) continues to be pushed by private companies that are failing due to antique business models.
https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/Internet-Inventors-Warn-of-SOPA-Stupidity-117455
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A final note.... Ask your politician where the hell all that broadband build money went too. Whether government gave out money or whether the Internet provider said they spent billions, when they really only spent ???. Did the government give grant money to a big company, resulting in a quality small company being devastated or wiped out?
HTTPS: extension(add-on) for FireFox to encrypt your data streams, based on sites that have encryption. Notation of it will seem slow for satellite users and oversubscribed systems with high LAG. Notice some of the links in this post: encrypted links.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
FireFox web browser.
https://www.mozilla.org/
