ARE YOU SICK AND TIRED OF RISING PHONE AND CABLE BILLS?

Just wait, it could get worse. For over  a year I have heard the rumours, and in the last 2 months, this has been in the news.

Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP's all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These 'other' sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet.

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Dylan Pattyn  who is currently writing an article for Time Magazine on the issue, has official confirmation from sources within Bell Canada and is interviewing a marketing representative from TELUS who confirms the story and states that TELUS has already started blocking all websites that aren't in the subscription package for mobile Internet access. They could not confirm whether it would happen in 2012 because both stated it may actually happen sooner (as early as 2010). Interviews with these sources, more confirmation from other sources and more in-depth information on the issue is set to be published in Time Magazine soon.

Can you imagine what this would mean? You will have to pay $50 a month extra, to access all of the sites that you currently access for free. Can this really happen?

Internet For Everyone was launched this past summer, believes EVERYONE should have access to affordable, fast and an open Internet.  Since 2001, the United States has fallen from fourth in the world in broadband penetration to 15th in the world today. While American consumers face high prices and few choices, many of our European and Asian counterparts have achieved the goals of universal deployment and competitive markets. Returning to the top of international rankings would translate into millions of new jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in increased economic activity for the United States.

It will be something to keep an eye on, that's for sure!