Lexx
@cgocable.net
| June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day Well the Day is almost here, and along with our amazingly rapish caps we now get a awesome bonus prize from cogeco! An Amazing price hike again! (sure some people will say its only a couple of dollars, but again like everything from cogeco, what do we gain as a consumer for that money??)
So I for one will be calling them up to cancel my service and switch to Teksavvy (only 1 meg a second, but still better than paying Corporate Cogeco Rapist). I will also be switching my parents service and suggesting any one I can do the same (as I hope you all do) To anyone that stays with Cogeco past June 1st... Good Luck
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SuperCM
join:2005-03-08
1 edit | Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day I called up TekSavvy yesterday and am scheduled to activate with them on the 28th. If all goes well then I'll return Cogeco's modem over the weekend just before June 1st. | |
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Airwolf
Merry Christmas. Shtter was full.
Premium
join:2001-10-30
Windsor, ON
clubs: | Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day Wish I could, but DSL is crap in my area. I don't know if they improved it since I last had it. | |
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join:2008-09-13
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·Bell Sympatico
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by Airwolf  :Wish I could, but DSL is crap in my area. I don't know if they improved it since I last had it. Go over to the Teksavvy side of things and have them look at your line stats. Won't cost you a thing and you might get surprised. | |
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Airwolf
Merry Christmas. Shtter was full.
Premium
join:2001-10-30
Windsor, ON
clubs:
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| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by Jeffer71 :Go over to the Teksavvy side of things and have them look at your line stats. Won't cost you a thing and you might get surprised. How, I don't have a DSL modem. | |
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Premium
join:2002-07-11
Sudbury, ON
·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by Airwolf :said by Jeffer71 :Go over to the Teksavvy side of things and have them look at your line stats. Won't cost you a thing and you might get surprised. How, I don't have a DSL modem. They can do a qualify based on your current phone number, but if you have Cogeco VOIP, it might be difficult to do. | |
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Premium
join:2002-11-08
Kingston, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by nitzguy :said by Airwolf :said by Jeffer71 :Go over to the Teksavvy side of things and have them look at your line stats. Won't cost you a thing and you might get surprised. How, I don't have a DSL modem. They can do a qualify based on your current phone number, but if you have Cogeco VOIP, it might be difficult to do. I just called Teksavvy they couldnt tell me line stats without me being hooked already to Teksavvy | |
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Trist
join:2004-04-08
Hamilton, ON | Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day Just found out I can receive TekSavvy where I am. Just posted a follow-up to see if they can give me some idea of what speed that may be. | |
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join:2005-10-11
Hamilton, ON | Try calling Bell... they'll tell you. | |
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Airwolf
Merry Christmas. Shtter was full.
Premium
join:2001-10-30
Windsor, ON
clubs:
·Cogeco Cable
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by vuarra :Try calling Bell... they'll tell you. More like make you sign up first. | |
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javanox6
join:2004-02-05
nob2ko | Lexx
i am leaveing and my cogeco dies june 4th they still havent sent my box for me to throw the modem in to i going to call them wtf is takeing so long | |
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cogecosucks
@cgocable.net | yes ill be leaving them too, asap. I truely hope alot more people do. This is rediculous. | |
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SgtBDick
@cgocable.net | You are quite right sir, cogeco does suck. I am also leaving cogeco.
Charging $53 a month for a 60 GB cap is criminally high.
We won't take this lying down! | |
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javanox6
join:2004-02-05
nob2ko
| i went with a company called hurontel they have a nice deal of 3 months free and then 34 plus 5 for modem plus tax for 12 months on a contract and its unlimited dls yesterday was my frist day of testing i am rolling at 500-700kb/s on news server all so torrents 400-600kb/s and my upload speeds are like 40-60kb/s i live in the bum of F now where lol and i am getting good speed this town is called rockwood lolol i am 100% sure they have there own Dslams | |
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DAK
join:2009-05-27
Thorold, ON
| Talked to Bell and they tell me I can only get 2Mbit in my area for DSL... Teksavvy tells me I'd be lucky to get 3Mbit.. So I'm pretty much stuck I think, might almost be worth even taking the hit to drop to 3 with Teksavvy just for the high cap and not being with Cogeco, ugh.
It really is pathetic how bad the DSL offerings are in my area, not sure if it's distance to the CO or line quality, emailed Teksavvy to ask if they would be able to tell me and see what my chances are of being able to drop Cogeco as soon as possible are.
These changes really are pathetic, the obnoxiously low cap didn't bother me before the UBB and apparently a price increase on the 16th, but it's just a money-grab now, no interest in providing a respectable service, they just want to milk us, definitely taking another option the first chance I get. | |
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@cgocable.net
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day i hear ya... im really pissed off with cogeco as well like everyone else..i cannot get DSL on my street yet so im screwed
i sent a nice email to cogeco and said they were fuckin scum bags and there reply was 'we dont want to loose you as a customer' if you have any comments or questions please call the number
ya... right on..thats there response to everything... there lke robots... | |
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join:2005-10-06
Kingston, ON
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day I have no intention of leaving Cogeco - they have great speed and are very rarely down. I've used Sympatico at a friend's house - the best it's shown is "low signal strength", it's slow as heck and won't let me upload anything without constantly disconnecting me. So, thank you very much for great service, Cogeco! | |
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join:2009-06-25
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by msrosie :I have no intention of leaving Cogeco Don't kid yourself  . Cogeco isn't the worst company in Canada. If you go down to the US, there is a company called Comcast which offers much higher speeds and 250GB limit. Besides, ever since Louis Audet took over as CEO for Cogeco in April, 2009, after his father Henri Audet, Louis has been flushing the company down the toilet with his newer policies. People should switch to show Cogeco that they should change their service policies. | |
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cogecosucks
@cgocable.net
| Well, i used to live in hamilton and i had mountain cable, and recently moved back to st. catherines area with my parents (school is done) and they have cogeco cable, and it frankly sucks.
When i had mountaincable, i had no caps, no throttle, newsgroup access, and everything just worked, without any hiccups or problems.
On the cogeco side of things, not only did i hit my bandwidth limit, i am also noticing slow downs in the peak hours (my parents have been complaining about this for the past year).
All i can say is, that we too are leaving cogeco cable (parents are relocating) and they couldnt be happier to ditch cogeco.
Frankly i am just getting fed up with the high prices for mediocre service, bandwidth limits, mediocre speeds, and throttling. They are just taking advantage of us, the customers, and its BS.
I for one will never be a cogeco customer, but i will gladly be a mountaincable customer (too bad they dont service the niagara region) | |
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join:2005-10-06
Kingston, ON
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day If you aren't a Cogeco customer, why do you spend time at a Cogeco board?
I have no problem with bandwidth caps. Why should I, who only uses half the cap, pay the same as someone who goes over the cap? It's only fair to make those who go over pay more, or suspend them. | |
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join:2008-11-21
·Cogeco Cable
4 edits | Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by msrosie :If you aren't a Cogeco customer, why do you spend time at a Cogeco board? I have no problem with bandwidth caps. Why should I, who only uses half the cap, pay the same as someone who goes over the cap? It's only fair to make those who go over pay more, or suspend them. Apologists, gotta love 'em.
Do you have any idea how cheap bandwidth is these days and how uncomfortably LOW these caps are? Do a little homework.
By your own logic, if your family only uses "half the cap", then YOU should pay HALF THE PRICE. Why would you draw the conclusion that the rest of us should be "punished" in some way? Go call Cogeco and demand a partial refund. How exactly am I hurting you if my household uses, say, 85GB/month (very easy to do on a 10Mb connection Cogeco provides as standard)? I ask you to once again do your homework when it comes to today's true bandwidth costs.
You do realize Cogeco and Bell compete directly with online media distribution services, no? You do see the foul play here, no? People are moving away from their cable/satellite providers for their entertainment needs and that scares these companies to death. Ask yourself why companies that are strictly Internet providers like TekSavvy are NOT implementing these ridiculously low caps.
You may not be cognizant of today's Internet and the changing face of content delivery, but many of us are. You can try to judge people and their families who choose to embrace change and support the new economy and display ill founded righteousness in the process, but you only reveal your lack of understanding of today's rapidly changing world. | |
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urbanriot
join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day How is he an apologist? Because his point of view is different from yours?
said by metrotitan :Ask yourself why companies that are strictly Internet providers like TekSavvy are NOT implementing these ridiculously low caps. Well, right off the top of my head, they don't have the same overhead, maintenance and operating costs as Cogeco has. Now before you inaccurately accuse me of being an apologist, I also don't agree with the rediculously low caps; but Cogeco's business structure is completely different from their competitors which is the basis of one of your arguments and yet you attempt to complain that they should have a similar pricing structure.
said by metrotitan :You may not be cognizant of today's Internet and the changing face of content delivery, but many of us are. You can try to judge people and their families who choose to embrace change and support the new economy and display ill founded righteousness in the process, but you only reveal your lack of understanding of today's rapidly changing world. Well that's clever... assert that the poster (or anyone else) reveals a lack of understanding and ill founded righteousness in an attempt to trump further opinions that are contrary to yours.
Well, at least the boards will be quieter after June 1st if some of you are truly leaving | |
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join:2007-10-01
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day why don't they structure it like other cable companies south of the border that share a very similar business structure? i mean TWcable listened to the people who said metered billing is BS and stopped it before it started. comcast gave their customers giant caps compared to what we deal with. if you think metered billing is anything more than a way to jack the profits up, while holding a large percentage of the customer base over the fire, than you have already drank the koolaid and nothing is gonna help you now. | |
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join:2006-11-03
Peterborough, ON
| said by urbanriot :Well, at least the boards will be quieter after June 1st if some of you are truly leaving Don't hold your breath. | |
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
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1 edit | said by urbanriot :How is he an apologist? Because his point of view is different from yours? Naw dawg, he's just ignate.
said by urbanriot :Well, right off the top of my head, they don't have the same overhead, maintenance and operating costs as Cogeco has. You're right, they don't - but Cogeco has significantly more subscribers than they do, their capital is massive in comparison and they can easily afford the maintenance and operating costs. God, I just can't wait to see the DOCSIS pricing, that'll be a top story on BRR "Cogeco rolls out DOCSIS 3.0 - 50/10 $199 / month, $500 installation fee, 100GB Cap"! Good times.
said by urbanriot :Now before you inaccurately accuse me of being an apologist, I also don't agree with the rediculously low caps; but Cogeco's business structure is completely different from their competitors which is the basis of one of your arguments and yet you attempt to complain that they should have a similar pricing structure. Cogeco has a business structure?  , I just shit myself. If Cogeco was more like their competitors, they wouldn't have people flocking over to Tek Savvy - Cogeco is going to lose a lot of customers this year and not just savvy ones either. Regular joes don't like price hikes as well. Heck, even the Cogeco die-hards are leaving - is the apocalypse upon us?
said by urbanriot :Well that's clever... assert that the poster (or anyone else) reveals a lack of understanding and ill founded righteousness in an attempt to trump further opinions that are contrary to yours. Did it ever occur to you that maybe it's clever because you know... He's actually right? Naw, couldn't be.
said by urbanriot :Well, at least the boards will be quieter after June 1st if some of you are truly leaving Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere, I'll pick up his slack.
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join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON | Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day zing. | |
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join:2007-10-18
Milton, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| said by urbanriot :Well, at least the boards will be quieter after June 1st if some of you are truly leaving Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere, I'll pick up his slack.
I'm just hanging around because I can't avert my eyes
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join:2006-11-03
Peterborough, ON
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by Gruesome :said by urbanriot :Well, at least the boards will be quieter after June 1st if some of you are truly leaving Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere, I'll pick up his slack. I cancelled my Internet weeks ago I'm just hanging around because I can't avert my eyes It's like watching an accident.... You're at the intersection too soon to watch yet. Bring a lawn chair as the actual collision will
occur when the average users get their first bill under this. Most threw the notice in the garbage.
I have Nexicom programed in my speed dial with my finger over the button everyday when the mail comes.
10 Mbps, no caps and $39.95 a month first year, $44.95 after that. | |
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join:2008-11-21
·Cogeco Cable
4 edits | said by Fireblade :said by urbanriot :Well, at least the boards will be quieter after June 1st if some of you are truly leaving Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere, I'll pick up his slack. Sadly, I won't be going anywhere for a little while, either; I'm stuck with Cogeco until I move, as for some reason I can only get 512kb from TS. | |
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·Vonage
1 edit | Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by msrosie :If you aren't a Cogeco customer, why do you spend time at a Cogeco board? I have no problem with bandwidth caps. Why should I, who only uses half the cap, pay the same as someone who goes over the cap? It's only fair to make those who go over pay more, or suspend them. You should switch to DSL, save some coin - it sounds to me like you're an e-mail granny. This is also a free board, anyone can post here regardless of their ISP. Like metrotitan said, you obviously don't understand peering costs - the additional bandwidth that we're going to pay for has already been paid for on our monthly bill, whodathunkit? This is just another way to rape Canadians and please investors.
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JesusBeamz
Lord of the Jesus Beamz
join:2009-05-14
Ontario
·Cogeco Cable
1 edit | Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by Fireblade :said by msrosie :If you aren't a Cogeco customer, why do you spend time at a Cogeco board? I have no problem with bandwidth caps. Why should I, who only uses half the cap, pay the same as someone who goes over the cap? It's only fair to make those who go over pay more, or suspend them. You should switch to DSL, save some coin - it sounds to me like you're an e-mail granny. This is also a free board, anyone can post here regardless of their ISP. Like metrotitan said, you obviously don't understand peering costs - the additional bandwidth that we're going to pay for has already been paid for on our monthly bill, whodathunkit? This is just another way to rape Canadians and please investors. I like you
edit: I just got a great idea. We should make a thread to encourage ONLY subscribers/ex-subscribers of cogeco to submit a review for cogeco and get their "bronze award" taken away. Gixxer, should you have that honor?  | |
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON | Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day There's no need, Cogeco will do it to itself in the coming months.
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON | Mountain Cable, really good shit. | |
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SuperCM
join:2005-03-08
| Today is Thursday and my TekSavvy seems to be up and running. I just swapped the cable from my router to the DSL modem.
Speed tests are showing 3.3Mbps down and 600Kbps up. Not bad I suppose. I watched the new HD trailer for Modern Warfare 2 and it managed to keep ahead of the playback.
Oh well, I guess for $30... Half the price, half the speed, more than triple the cap - ha ha. I hooked up my notebook to my TV to watch the Modern Warfare 2 trailer and it looked great.
Apparently TekSavvy has decent newsgroups servers, so I might look into that and I guess if things work out with that I really wouldn't have a need for Cogeco TV either. | |
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Gruesome
join:2007-10-18
Milton, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| I'm looking into Cable TV options as well(ie streaming, Downloading, FTA(both Sat and Antenna)
It makes me sick that Cogeco is charging HD access fee and for an Hd receiver
My friend was getting HD on Aurora Cable through Clear Cam but they were bought out by Rogers
*poof*
Sir you will now need an Hd box and to pay an access fee
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dan991199
join:2007-10-01
St Catharines, ON | true story, cogeco had a great record in regards to user reviews 2 years ago. now they are sitting at 67% which if we applya scholastic like grade to their performance cogeco is a "C" of a company. | |
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richipoooo
@cgocable.net | woohoo ill be leaving cogeco soon next and so will a few others i know here we come tekksavvy !!! | |
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join:2009-06-25
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by richipoooo :
woohoo ill be leaving cogeco soon next and so will a few others i know here we come tekksavvy !!!
Yes, you should let Louis Audet (CEO of Cogeco from April 2009 after his father Henri Audet) know that he is going the wrong way with his new policies for change to happen. | |
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Chromac
join:2001-08-29
L'Orignal, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by yanniep :said by richipoooo :
woohoo ill be leaving cogeco soon next and so will a few others i know here we come tekksavvy !!!
Yes, you should let Louis Audet (CEO of Cogeco from April 2009 after his father Henri Audet) know that he is going the wrong way with his new policies for change to happen. WTF Louis has been CEO since way before April 09 which end of your ass did you yank that statement from??? Louis became CEO of Cogeco in 1993. Yes Henri stepped down from the board in April 09 but Louis has been running things since 93. You should really do more homework before sticking your foot in your mouth like that.
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urbanriot
join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day Hmm I thought there was something to yanniep's allegations but the timing doesn't make sense, nor does the fact that Henrii Audet still has 72% voting stake. Maybe it was a group consensus that lead to all the lousy decisions that were made, and not just the responsibility of one person. | |
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dan991199
join:2007-10-01
St Catharines, ON | made the call today. after debating about it all month. i'll take the slower speeds teksavvy has to offer for the unlimited download bandwidth.
its been something Cogeco.. Dec 3 1999 - June 1 2009 for highspeed internet access. | |
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Ravage_D
join:2003-03-28
Kingston, ON
·Primus Telecommuni..
·Cogeco Voip
| I left Cogeco at the beginning of May when my lease was up, I had been with them for 3 years.
They were ABSOLUTELY fantastic. Best ISP I've ever been with or had experience with.
VERY reliable speeds, fantastic uptime, great customer service. I've never ever had a problem with them -- things always worked out. I had Digital Cable and the home phone.
The only thing i didn't like was the fact that they aggressively throttle connections, but that actually worked for me as I always had all my bandwidth for USENET.
But I left. Why? Because I can't take the 60Gig cap. Simple as that. As long as there exists a different option for me, I'm going to take it. In this case, I found 7Mbit Primus, unlimited and unthrottled. Had I not used Primus, it would have been Teksavvy.
If they offered a cap of say 200gigs, I'd probably want to go back to Cogeco. But with housemates, it's hard because all of us use the internet.
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Brades
Brades
Premium
join:2002-11-08
Kingston, ON | Just emailed...i am eligible for 5meg service. Switching tomorrow. Been with cogeco since the wave...was great until the past year. Cya Cogeco! | |
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@cgocable.net
| waiting for my parents to rearrange their phone line then i'll probably sign up with teksavvy, they said someone in the same subdivision as me is getting 5mbps and is on band c for dryloop. i think that'll add up to 10$ cheaper then cogeco on the 200gb/month plan. i just wish i had a way to test my dsl modem before signing up. i know it worked with bell, but i have not used it in forever. | |
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SuperCM
join:2005-03-08
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by chdude3 :EDIT - maybe I misunderstood, and there are apparently things to try if I'm not getting the full "Up to 5M" from a company. Perhaps it will be worth trying as a trial. 1-3 Mbps is still greater than 0Mbps when they cut you off and +$30 to your bill. | |
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danny
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I'm moving 3 other cogeco accounts to teksavvy soon too | |
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back2bellteksavy
@cgocable.net
| Well I had all my tv,internet and voip bundled for 5-10 years with cogeco for quite some time,but the rising price increases have made it too costly for this single dad.So I went to back to Bell for basic landline last week and just today I switched to Teksavvy.No effort made by Cogeco to retain my business after all these years as a loyal cutomer.So long Cogeco,you've still got my analogue cable acct............for now. | |
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join:2005-03-08
| Re: June 1st - Leave Cogeco Day said by back2bellteksavy :
So I went to back to Bell for basic landline last week and just today I switched to Teksavvy. TekSavvy also offers Home Line service. I switched to them when Bell Canada jacked their rates last summer. | |
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