As you may have already read about from my previous recent topic, Canadian ISP's are taking a turn for the worse; all slowly removing such services and plans allowing unlimited bandwidth and additionally implementing steadily increasing over-usage charges. If you're not aware, feel free to take a look at my thread.
Onwards, I've devised a plan to take back what is rightfully ours. With unlimited bandwidth plans becoming increasingly scarce, it's getting harder to find a plan that is affordable while best fitting your/my heavy bandwidth usage. Having considered this issue about 4 months ago, I had put a scheme to test and it seems to be working accordingly to this day.
I will explain you how to work your way around paying over-usage fees per gigabyte if you are a Bell internet service subscriber.
The first thing you will need to do is download as much as you'd like, regardless of your service plan's designated bandwidth. Once you're satisfied and have download you data, add as many usage insurance plans needed to make it seem as though you never went over your monthly allocated bandwidth. When you call them to add the plans, they will still warn you that adding the insurance plans will not change the fact that over-usage charges will apply for the data that was used after you exceeded your bandwidth.
Bell bills usage separate from your monthly charges. Having said that, if you pay 49.95$ for internet and you receive your bill for the period between January 3rd 2011 to February 4th 2011, the additional over-usage charges added to the total of that bill will not correspond to the Jan 03-Feb 04 period but rather to the previous period. I spoke with a support rep and he told me that Bell bills your usage one month after your actual bill in order to process the data. So in lamens terms, wen you pay your bill, you're actually paying the over0usage charges for the previous period/month. This is where we take control.
When you get the bill, tell them to look at your over-usage details for the last month and tell them that you didn't go over and that there should not be any over-usage charges. I've done this four times already and they don't seem to be able to track down when you added the insurance plan(s) (or they just don't bother) which means, when they look at your previous month's usage, they will say, 'Oh, we must have made a mistake. You did not exceed your bandwidth allocation', when in fact, you did by a truck-load. Now, you pay normal fees and not those dreaded 2.50$ per extra GB over.
This technique is all about getting a different support rep each time you call, which is almost inevitable. Use it wisely and remember, if you get caught doing this, wait a couple of months before trying again.
Lastly, this is not hacking, scamming or illegal. These telecommunication companies have begun screwing us over big-time, at least here in Canada, and I've just about had enough. I'm sure there's a resounding echo when I say that and I'm not the only one that feels this way among Canadian residents.
Let's take back what is rightfully ours guys!
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