More reasons to hate Bell Canada.

Bell sucks. Here's another reason why;

After noticing something was amiss with my phone bill, and calling Bell them up, I was told I was paying an extra 3.90$/month and 6.95$/month for "simplitel" which I never ordered. + Tax of course.

Apparently I've been paying this since October 2004, (total of over 560$) we don't use long distance, none of our friends or relatives are far and those that are, are just on the south shore at like .02$/minute...

That means that to make up for the 10.85$/month for the long distance plan, we'd have to be on the phone with them for approximately 542 minutes, or about 30 hours and 42 minutes.

Like we have that kind of time to waste... ;-) (my in-laws...)

So I went to PC Cyber and got a Magic Jack, if you're on Videotron or any cable service, it's great, technically it's great on DSL too, the only problem is when you try to have your phone service discontinued while keeping your DSL.

Yesterday I called my ISP (Mustang Technologies), I pay 32$/month for 200Gb on a 5mbit circuit, they can install a dry loop at my house for 15$/month. I give them the go ahead, but there's a problem, they called me back this morning and tell me that Bell will only certify the dry loop in my area @ 640kbits (!)

They're told by Bell that they're out of circuits where I live (Ile Perrot area) and they can't guarantee 5mbits.

OK, I tell the guy, let me give Bell a call.

I call Bell and ask for a dry loop installed at my house with BELL's own 5mbits Sympatico DSL on it. The guy checks, NO PROBLEM!

I then tell the guy, wait, you misunderstood, I want a third party DSL service installed on THAT SAME DRY LOOP; all of a sudden it's no longer guaranteed to give 5mbits.

I ask him: "And why the fuck not?"

He tells me that they have a certain amount of dry loops they are forced to sub-lease to other ISPs and that the limit in my area has been reached.

I tell the guy; "I live in a residential area of Ile Perrot, surrounded by moms and pops that have no idea what the fuck a dry loop is, in fact most of you guys at Bell technical support, probably don't even know that it is, how the hell am I supposed to believe that in my area of Ile Perrot, they are out of dry loops?"

It's true, I could walk around door to door in my neighborhood and ask everyone what a dry loop is, I can guarantee most of the people will answer that it's some kind of fruity cereal!

I've been with Mustang Techno for about 10 years and the service and pricing has always been impeccable, we've been "down" for a total of maybe one or two days in 10 years. I really don't want to change to a cable provider, mostly because in my area, the only cable provider is...

You've guessed it; Bell's retarded cousin, Videotron.

How the NHL will lose some fans.

How? Let's see:

The recent Zdeno Chara hit on Pacioretty, followed by the lack of any discernible sanction to at the very least, discourage such hits throughout the league. The re-signing of all-star commissioner and overall douchebag, Gary Bettman as commissioner of the NHL, a major hockey league, a sport he clearly knows nothing about, the fact that the NHL governor, Mr. Jeremy Jacobs, also happens to be the owner of the Boston Bruins, that the league disciplinary prefect Colin Campbell, also happens to be the dad of another Campbell NHL player who also happens to play for the Bruins...

Are those a lot of "also" being used in one long sentence to describe a lot of coincidences? Or is it indicative of a possible cover-up, over cover-up, lies and misinformations?

In a sport that supposedly makes the bulk of its revenue in the USA, a country that is struggling financially through a huge crisis, the appearance of impartiality is something important, and the thought does occur: What if it was the NFL?

Would it make things any better?

Henrik Sedin, one of the top NHL star players commented the non suspension of Chara "because Chara had no priors", by stating that if Chara is never suspended for anything he does, then he would never have any priors now would he. And that the NHL should start somewhere.

The fact that Chara has one of the best slapshots in the league, that he is a regular at all star games, does not put him above the regulations, if it did then Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen would have gotten away with their respective (and illegal) escapades.

Zdeno Chara should have been suspended, if only for a couple games, as a show of goodwill but, with the Bruins locked in a race for first place in their division, the loss of Chara would have penalized them, dramatically favoring the Habs in this race.

Much in the same way that the loss of Pacioretty, a player that was in his breakout season, is going to penalize the Habs.

Where is the impartiality?

Someone should tell the commissioner that nobody's going to follow a sport once it has been established as being arranged. The WWF comes to mind...