Huffington Post: Rogers accused of charging for internal Internet traffic

"Outright theft." That's what Canadians are calling this latest alleged attempt by Big Telecom to price-gouge us. Speak out against Big Telecom price-gouging at https://openmedia.ca/deadweight Article by Daniel Tencer for the Huffington Post Canada Rogers Communications is denying online accusations that it charges its internet customers for internal traffic on their routers, even if that traffic doesn’t use the Rogers network.

"Outright theft." That's what Canadians are calling this latest alleged attempt by Big Telecom to price-gouge us.

Speak out against Big Telecom price-gouging at https://openmedia.ca/deadweight

Article by Daniel Tencer for the Huffington Post Canada

Rogers Communications is denying online accusations that it charges its internet customers for internal traffic on their routers, even if that traffic doesn’t use the Rogers network.

Several users of the social news site Reddit claim Rogers charged them for traffic on their local area network — traffic moving between computers on a Rogers-issued home router but which doesn’t go through Rogers’ internet infrastructure.

One Reddit user told The Huffington Post Canada he noticed his internet usage count jump by 50 gigabytes last month during a period when he was hardly surfing the web — but had transferred 50 gigabytes’ worth of data from one computer to another using a router.

The customer, who declined to be named in this article to protect his online anonymity, said a Rogers customer service rep told him the company charges for all traffic on a subscriber’s home network, regardless of whether it goes through Rogers’ network.

“In my opinion this is outright theft,” he said.

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