Me with my employer provided Rogers discount paying $45/mo per line for unlimited everything + 100 GB data per line:
For real though, I’m really glad I can avoid this whole mess… For now.
Matt Hatfield, executive director of the non-profit advocacy group OpenMedia, suggests the telecoms may be refusing to fold because even if they lose the battle, they will still have made money during the period they were able to charge the fees.
“Over that time, they will collect more revenue than what they expect they’ll be fined,” he said. “So it’s in their financial interest to do it.”
We need a law that automatically increases a fine to include all revenue earned directly or indirectly with proof of connection to the violation.
Fines being a cost-of-business is nothing more than flagrant disregard for the just rule of law.
Just like the digital sales tax was going to be retro actively charged before Carney came in and said to the tech companies here you do not need to raise your prices again, you can just keep your over inflated prices as is.
Please nail them to the wall. Make their decision to not back down the fiscally irresponsible option with fines greatly exceeding the revenue they get from not backing down.
They should fold in the E911 fee as well. Any fee that’s not optional is simply cost of doing business.
