Sympatico High Speed Dry Loop for 7mb/1mb, 60GB cap = 26.95, modem inc, NO CONTRACT

[deal_king]

Nov. 12 UPDATE: I called in and threatened to cancel and they adjusted my invoices so that I was paying $26.95 + taxes (modem included).
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I called to cancel and was offered the following after I tried to pricematch with http://web.vdn.ca/maxnet-en/maxnet-high-speed

Sympatico High-Speed 7mb/1mb
Dry loop
60GB cap
No contract
$34.95

Considering that I was paying 27.95 to Sympatico for 5mb/1mb unlimited for the last 11 years, and that Bell suddenly raised the price of my unlimited plan last November to 52.95, its the next best thing.

I know about Acanac and Teksavvy and their unlimited plans, but I run an e-commerce business and only exceeded 60gb once in the last 3 years.

Has anyone negotiated a better deal for Sympatico High Speed (5mb or 7mb)? If so, how?

[NG]

Buying anything from Bell helps to feed the beast.

[bubble.tea]

Isn't there a Bell retention thread?

A little bird told me retention with bell tops out currently at $14.99 for three months then $19.99 for another three then $29.99 for the remainder of the year. You'd have to beat that for this to be a hot deal I should say.

My figures might be a dollar or two off

[Hugh Jass]

Best I could get out of them was $33.95 a month for 7Mb service. Long time customer, with home phone and ExpressVu also.

[adrianf74]

I know about Acanac and Teksavvy and their unlimited plans, but I run an e-commerce business and only exceeded 60gb once in the last 3 years.

Has anyone negotiated a better deal for Sympatico High Speed (5mb or 7mb)? If so, how?

My condolences. I wouldn't pay $34.95 to Bell for internet (directly) ever again. They had offered me MAX10 service with a contract (including a paltry 100GB cap) for $41.95 or the same deal you've mentioned. They wanted to give me the $34.95/60GB cap offer on a contract only at the time.

I've been with Teksavvy now since November with ZERO downtime. Likewise, I've got a friend who's been with them for over two years. My only disappointment was not moving sooner. For $29.95 a month you can have a 200GB cap.

Cheers.

[mlerner]

That's nice but it's UP TO 7 mbps and 60 GB cap - that's just too small. Also you better hope you don't have a service outage due to the telephone wiring, you'll be spending hours on the phone trying to get the Indian rep to schedule a service call.

[vric]

I use DSL 5Mbit no cap for $29/m..

But your deal isn't too bad for a dry loop (what everyone seem to forget here.. dry loop usually cost $10 alone)

[nx6288]

60GB Cap? No Thanks.

[Avignon]

I was on the old unlimited until June (since they started HS ~1999).
the best they offered me was ~$37/mo. on an annual contract limited but 7 mbs. I told them I was going to teksavvy, still didn't budge.

Moved to teksavvy in Dec.
Lots of dropped connections initially, which I attribute to bell screwing with TS.
great support at TS, so I am persevering - hope they get it sorted out so I don't have to go to Rogers.

At one time we had Bell home line, 2 bell cell phones, expressvu & sympatico.
Now we have only the home line (which we will dump next year for TS).
A truly screwed up company.

[tweetybird]

DO NOT GO WITH SYMPATICO, they will tell you is is 34.95 and billing errors will drive you crazy, one month they charge 49.95 and I call and they fix it and then the following month they tack in $5 charges...endless waste of time. Go with Techsavvy..

[Germack]

DO NOT GO WITH SYMPATICO, they will tell you is is 34.95 and billing errors will drive you crazy, one month they charge 49.95 and I call and they fix it and then the following month they tack in $5 charges...endless waste of time. Go with Techsavvy..

+1 Same thing happened to me. Each month they overcharged me. I finally canceled and went to Acanac.

[tsttm]

those of you on teksavvy, are you buying the modems from them or are you getting them elsewhere for cheap?

[funnypanks]

I called to cancel and was offered the following after I tried to pricematch with http://web.vdn.ca/maxnet-en/maxnet-high-speed

Sympatico High-Speed 7mb/1mb
Dry loop
60GB cap
No contract
$34.95

Considering that I was paying 27.95 to Sympatico for 5mb/1mb unlimited for the last 11 years, and that Bell suddenly raised the price of my unlimited plan last November to 52.95, its the next best thing.

I know about Acanac and Teksavvy and their unlimited plans, but I run an e-commerce business and only exceeded 60gb once in the last 3 years.

Has anyone negotiated a better deal for Sympatico High Speed (5mb or 7mb)? If so, how?

most likely ur gonna be calling in every month so they fix the bill for you, its a pain in the ass, spend a little extra and switch to any competitor. i was on a employee discount plan with them, and it took them almost a year before i didn't have to call in to get the price quoted

[zsnow]

i'm still paying $67 for the max10 100G service.
it's hard for dryloop customer to convert to other company.

[night_sky]

Does anyone know if Sympatico blocks ports?

In particular, has anyone used openVPN in Sympatico network? I couldn't get it to work in Rogers network, I suspect it's a ports issue.