Shaw's new movie service will count towards data plans, company confirms

CALGARY – Shaw Communications’ new movie service Shaw Movie Club is off to a rather controversial start.Last Thursday, while promoting the launch of the service, president Peter Bissonnette said that using it to view movies either “on your (set top) box or on-line, this will not have any impact on your capacity or usage”. That prompted a heated response from consumer advocacy organization OpenMedia.ca, critical of Shaw's plan to count the likes of Netflix against users' bit caps, but exempt their own. It called Movie Club “a blatant attempt to gain an unfair advantage over on-line services like Netflix, as well as against Shaw’s...