Users in our Bell Canada forums note that the Canadian incumbent telco has lowered the monthly rate of several of their tiers, but they've countered that by lowering customer usage caps as well. A look at the Bell website reveals that the company lowered usage limits on all their tiers, in addition to raising the overage cap penalty limit (at $1 per gigabyte) an additional $20, to $80 per month in maxiumum usage penalties. Bell's Fibe 10 service went from a 75 GB cap to 60 GB, Fibe 12 went from 50 GB to 40 GB, Fibe 16 went from 75 GB to 65 GB and Fibe 25 went from 125 GB to 100 GB. Customers in our forums aren't pleased:
I'm keeping a close eye to my allowed quota on their portal. If they drop my package from 75 GB to 60 GB, then they better have a really good offer for me, or this might finally convince this 10+ year customer here to move elsewhere. I had been staying with them recently mostly because of the inconvenience of switching. If my bill is going to increase by another 10-20$/month due to that change, I'm gone.
Bell's "Fibe" service is named to make you think it's actually fiber, but the limitations on the DSL service are abundantly clear.read comment(s)