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Google is sure to pay attention to this petition.

It's not as important to get Google to pay attention as it is to get the CRTC to pay attention. There are laws in place preventing foreign competition in the Canadian marketplace, which in conjunction with other laws have essentially created a non-competition environment for Canadian ISPs. This petition is more about generating awareness for Canadians and and to trying and formulate a discussion around change.

And yet I have cheaper, faster broadband in Vancouver than I did in Milwaukee, set up with far less hassle and without continual talk about capping usage or filtering torrent traffic. Having lived both countries, I feel far better served as a consumer of Internet services here than I did in the U.S.

And yet when I lived in Seattle around 2000 I had significantly cheaper and faster DSL than I got when I came back home to Toronto a couple years later.

Having compared two specific locations in both countries I feel as though my experience is anecdotal at best.

I'm interested in who you get service from. I never get hassled or anything, but I pay through the teeth for my service!

I started with Shaw and then switched to Novus in my building.

Right on. Shame on me for living in a house. Shaw is painful in sone parts of N Burnaby.

I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic, but in fact Google has already been shown to care about the internet in our little pond to the north.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2008/07/07/tech-crtc...

Well, it's certainly not hurting and gives visibility to the issue in general. The more people are aware that the ISP situation could be much better in Canada, the better.

In the meantime, I'll keep recommending Teksavvy.

I wish Teksavvy were available in my region, I would love to get off Shaw.

Distributel too.. 28Mbit down for $50 a month.. no caps or contracts

Weird. It's the first I hear of them, and I thought I knew all the ISP choices around here. I'll check them out, thanks.

Have you heard of Acanac? Acanac basically slightly re-packages and re-sells Distributel's network.

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