Canadians are going to be in for a big shock if usage based billing is allowed to become entrenched.Bell and the other internet providers are in a monopoly position and are abusing that monopoly position to raise prices and keep or drive smaller competitors out of the market.Some claim that those hitting caps are all invariably illegally downloading files. The people I know hitting caps usually do not have Bittorrent installed and are doing things like watch on-line video.Internet service is an infrastructure service.In large parts of the country there is NO competition and even in the larger cities there are never more than two competitors (along with the smaller ones that must play by Bell's anti-competitive rules)--usually a phone company and a cable company.Both "competitors" work very hard to keep competitors from being able to lay down their own infrastructure, and, also gouge customers.It's time to threaten the phone and cable ISPs with nationalization. They provide an infrastructure service, and, either they should be forced to provide that infrastructure at a reasonable price (not $2/gigabyte when it costs them $0.03/gigabyte to transmit). Or, they should lose their monopoly position and be forced to allow others to build a physical infrastructure alongside their own.Efficient business practice that leads to a monopoly position is one thing but abusing it is another. The phone and cable companies are right back to their old tricks. Time and again phone companies have had to be severely reigned in because they engaged in anti-competitive practices and gouged customers (Bell Canada before 1997!). And, now that cable companies are providing an infrastructure service they're starting to engage in the same thing.Two companies is not a competitive market. They'd rather both gouge their existing customers than play a game of competition and try to win customers away from each other.Yes, there are the "little" players but they're all being hamstrung by the anti-competitive telco that they're effectively unable to compete with the telcosCanada went from being a world leader and early adopter to a backwater in less than a decade. It's going to take something major to shake us out of our slump.