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Re: Rogers to offer 50 megabit service for $149.99 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.
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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.
I think Canadians are cursed! Not only Internet service, but we also pay much more for gas, books, and pretty much everything else. We will be taxed to death unless we get a job in eHealth! |
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 mlernerPremium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | 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. |
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mlernerPremium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | reply to annondaks
said by annondaks :
Tell you what Rogers... drop your marketing budget into infrastructure upgrades.
They actually have been improving the infrastructure immensely but the technology is still the bottleneck. It's no good to have an OC48 back end when the coax can't handle it properly but DOCSIS 3 should fix most of those problems. |
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 AngeloThe Network GuyPremium
join:2002-06-18 | this is robbers i wouldnt expect a descent service from them |
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 elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand
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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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 StewyPremium
join:2007-12-12
Kitchener, ON | reply to mlerner
said by mlerner: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. If 50Mbps is only with DOCSIS 3 then yea caps are not necessary.
My question remains, how is Rogers going to justify caps with docsis 3. If they say that a 250Gig cap is necessary with docsis 3 then there's something wrong with Rogers. |
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mlernerPremium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | said by Stewy:said by mlerner: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. If 50Mbps is only with DOCSIS 3 then yea caps are not necessary. My question remains, how is Rogers going to justify caps with docsis 3. If they say that a 250Gig cap is necessary with docsis 3 then there's something wrong with Rogers. 38 Mbit/s is the max usable speed on DOCSIS 2 so yes it will have to be DOCSIS 3. |
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