New Elite service, pay more for internet in Toronto

[rdarkman68]

New Roger/Bell service but more expensive (http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/1498/51/)

See how our willingness to let Rogers/Bell shape the price market in Toronto is starting to hurt us. The government letting Rogers/Shaw swap accounts from BC with T.O. years ago was the biggest anti-competition mistake on this subject. From then on, we were left with one single cable company. For internet service, then gradually, both companies start to implement restrictions on us at will. Now, its even getting into price profiling.

I know a lot of people say I am happy with limits, caps. Its all you people that download too much that get hurt. Let Rogers set different bit rates whenever they want. I would never get to use that much! Well, the way I see this, technology is catching up fast, content is getting bigger and even basic appliance will take up bandwidth (e.g. IP phone). When the day comes where its essential to get the next level of service in Toronto, we will be left with very little choice but to accept to pay for service that they can clearly sell for less at other canadian cities.

[module]

Oh this is fantastic news!!!!.... Oh wait... $100/month? I take it back!!!


18mbit download eh...thats like what? 1,500 KB/s...I wonder who will be able to afford that, damn

[Diamondog]

Wha a joke....18mbt connection with a 100gb cap....I'd blow that out of the water in less than a day with that kind of speed...ha ha who's gonna sign up for that....what a bunch of chumps.

[wing0]

it's quite stupid I say....
18mbit with 100GB cap + throttling on BT + no newsgroup access all for $100 + tax?

I'd rather have Shaw, Cogeco, Telus come into GTA to fight for a piece of this fat pie here...Without competition, our prices will always go up. Look at express, extreme prices, it's not getting cheaper and it's not going any faster(6mbit for a while)

[Trinidad]

The real kicker and I would not be surprised is an 18mbt connection and traffic shaping. All that speed and still 1KB/s for BT. Anyways anyone that would be trying to get this would need way more than 75 or 100 gig cap. You are paying a premium for the service why would they impose such a low cap :(

[dmdsoftware2]

A co-worker who is on Rogers Extreme woke up one morning to a 16Mbps download and 2Mbps upload connection. He went to dslreports and did three speedtests that confirmed the speed. By the next day he was back down to 6Mbps download and 800Kbps upload.

Perhaps they were upgrading his neighbourhood and forgot to throttle him back down to 6Mbps?

[CodecX81]

What sucks the most is the fact that we think this is so innovative and w/e... meanwhile, you can go over to Europe and just sign up for it at an insanely cheap rate... a friend of mine lived in Edinburogh for a year and he was with a company called Sky Broadband (http://broadband.sky.com/)... his 16mb *unlimited* connection cost him 10p. ($24CAD/mo.)

Thank you, broadband Gods Roger & Sympatico....for giving us the short end of the stick.