Every [Canadian] Family Needs a CIO

  

Read about the case of Mathew Ingram (picture), a journalist that became an IT manager in his household trying to detect how his home network consumed 95 GB in 6 days or 100 GB in two days leading to overcharge fees by his ISP - Rogers. 

Posted to Gigaom - "How Bandwidth Caps Force Us All to Become Network Cops" - here.

See also the long story of Usage based Billing in Canada - start here, and "Rogers [Canada] Admits its P2P Traffic Management Impacts Interactive Gaming" - here.