Rogers bandwidth warnings appearing in web browser

[James Knott]

Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Scott Allen wrote:
>> On Wed Apr 09,2008 07:37:38 PM Daniel Gardiner wrote:
>> Here's a couple of articles from a site affected by the issue, 
>> including responses from Rogers.
>>
>> <http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2436/206/>
>> <http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2437/206/>
>
> <quote from a web page>
> Mr. Hartling said the “only” way Rogers could notify its customers 
> they were
> approaching their bandwidth limit was to intercept and alter other 
> content
> providers webpages. When asked why Rogers could not use email or 
> postal mail
> to notify their high speed internet customers, Digital Home was told 
> that not
> all Rogers High speed internet users had email and that mail was too 
> slow.
> </quote>
>
> Umm... "not all Rogers High speed internet users had email"??
>
> What about the up to 10(?) e-mail accounts you get when you sign up 
> for Rogers hi-speed which can be accessed by an e-mail program or web 
> browser? I would wonder about these people getting hi-speed internet 
> access that don't use either an e-mail program or web browser.
>
There are many who get their email from elsewhere and don't use Rogers 
(Yahoo) email.  If Microsoft buys Yahoo, I'd certainly consider doing that.



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