| Rogers is PITA My inlaws live in Toronto, (me UNY) so they were essentially paying $40/month for 2/384k and capped at 20 GB, and speeds and quality were all over the place. Now they talk about Netflix in Canada, and I say watch out because you will have a VZW wireless moment if you try to use it. My inlaws are in their 70's and don't even know what 20GB is, but I do -- its a small fart. If that were offered in the US, they would be out of business because TBH that is like PURE MARGIN RIPOFF. There CS sucks BTW, big time and is quite rude (I have found Canadians have no concept of CS).
Long story short, my inlaws moved to Bell (still kept voip.ms) and the link is way more steady and the VOIP is crystal clear.
The rogers guy even told my parents that their phone was land line, and I laughed and looked at the VOIP box sitting in the basement and told them that if the cable were off, the phone would not work. I had to spend 20 minutes explaining it to my inlaws, that Rogers just straight out lied to them (they are canadians so they actually trust corporations -- silly concept).
So anyways Bell is working better, however I'm not sure if they have draconian caps or cost, but in any case for a city the size of Toronto (i live in puny Buffalo), my internet and services are WAY cheaper, stable and faster. Of course I have DSL, cable, and Fios to keep each other in check.
Netflix -> Hell for Canadians
So shame on Canada being so rich in culture, and so poor in infrastructure and not demand more from their utilities. I remember what it was like when I was a kid and NYNEX/Bell was just as bad behaving and expensive.
Canadians have a weird socialist/provincial/capitalist thing going on, and I don't think it is bad, but if they don't fix the internet, they are going to start falling behind as a society because the rest of the world has way better access (and the US sucks compared to a lot of countries). |
