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Rogers to offer 50 megabit service for $149.99

Rogers 50 megabit question

Download speed is irrelevant. What people really want is higher or no caps and faster uploads. While 50MB connection would be great it wont matter if you have 50gb cap to along with it.

Yeah.. that way i can hit their monthy cap in 4 hours not 20

^ Someone seriously ought to call in and ask about that, lol.

reply to gamer11200
Rogers dropped the 18/1 service in the downtown T.O core cause they don't have the infrastructure to handle it. Now they want to offer 50??

At 149.99 it's also a rip-off, why is anything to do with the internet 1/3 to 2x more expensive here in Canada than almost any other place in the world. Rogers and Bell have put us below the standards of a lot of "3rd world" countries.

Tell you what Rogers... drop your marketing budget into infrastructure upgrades. I don't want to see you name on every TV commercial and pasted all over junkmail in my mailbox and all over every billboard and sports building. What I do want is a cost competitive internet that is not capped so tight I use my quota up in a week!

Cost of bandwidth is going down for you and for the rest of the world.... yet your prices keep going up and your caps go down.

reply to gamer11200
Faster download speeds would be nice, but what I really need is faster upload speeds, higher caps, and an ISP that can make things happen with less bullshit.

I don't really care about what is possible with DOCSIS2, or that I'll have to upgrade my modem when DOCSIS3 rolls out. Rogers is spoon-feeding us internet service using a baby spoon. I very much prefer dunking my whole head into the internet feeding trough.

reply to annondaks

reply to gamer11200
It doesn't look anything like a good deal when a US cable operator is rolling out 101Mbps unlimited service for $99/mo, especially when you also consider the dollar is trading close to parity again.

As usual, Robbers is offering 1/2 the rate at 50% higher price (making 4x more expensive) and no mention of where they'll impose their draconian cap structure.

Sadly, this country is in the dark ages when it comes to mobile phones, internet and other technology services, and Bell, Robbers and the like are doing their best to keep it that way

reply to annondaks
If it's 50 then it'll be DOCSIS 3 and it can handle that kind of speed but the question again is the caps and if they're the same low caps then it's overpriced.

reply to annondaks

this is robbers i wouldnt expect a descent service from them

reply to gamer11200
Anyone who pays $150 for 50Mbps with 95Gig cap needs to have their heads examined. Seriously get medical advice immediately.

I have a friend in Sweden who has an un-throttled true 50Mbps connection with a 15T/month 500Gig/day cap and they pay $42Usd/month tax included.

They had a good laugh at my 5-7Mbps Extreme up 10Mbps 95Gig capped throttled and DPI'd connection for $65Usd +tax

reply to gamer11200
Bu..bu..bu...but I could load the weather channel so much faster though.

reply to gamer11200
Rayson, you haven't been to Europe to see what THEY pay for gas! At one time it was worse than today ... Throughout Europe it's virtually DOUBLE what we pay. At one time, not that many years ago if you used the price of gas in the US as a reference of 1 ... Canada was nearly 2 ... Great Britain was 4 and continental Europe nearly 8!

We don't do so bad on the world stage for gas!

reply to mlerner
It's all about having the service available, not about actually being able to use it. And I'm sure it will be UP To 50mb, so if you get 1mb you get hi speed
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It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

reply to gamer11200
This is another case of Rogers having the fastest. Videotron has 30Mbps.

Far more important to most of us is to offer decent bandwidth at lower speeds. I'm a speedfreak because I loathe waiting (those current Rogers ads on TV were aimed at me, I'm sure!).

I would be far happier if they'd sort out some price points and existing speeds. This "increase the price" mode they're in now is ridiculous.

I sit corrected, I thought videotron's was 30.

Videotron's price point is far closer the mark though, although the caps for that speed are low.

caps are very low and its sky is the limit over-charges after 100-gigs. No price cap.

not sure about this Rogers thing though.

Better value can be had with the unlimited videotron business internet (7.5 or 10-meg ~70$ and ~95$). Don't know if Rogers offers that though.

I'd like to see videotron break into Ontario (though they have some small area in Ottawa some place), but that would be something like competition which isn't allowed in Canada.

150$ is totally insane with a 95-gig cap (and I thought videotron was insane).

I agree with stewy. Seek help if you buy this.

reply to gamer11200
What a ripoff.