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I would suggest users in durham check out www.ontariohighspeed.ca

For residential
4 megabits per second down 384 kilobits per second upload.
100GB limit

For business
5 megabit's per second down, 512 kilobits per second upload
120GB limit.

To prevent a small percentage of the user-base from consuming a large amount's of the capacity we have a 30 day limit. If the limit is exceeded the connection is slowed to 1.5 megabit's per second down and 256 killobits per second upload until the 30 day average falls within the limit.

We also have a very strict limit's for the amount of users we will put on each radio.

Higher speeds particularly on the upload are coming soon we are in the process of getting a 100 megabit circuit online at our main pop.

We also have more coverage then indicated on the coverage map now as well.

We strive to deliver the full speed all the time.

reply to TLS2000
Not cost effective for who? You? Since when does Bell and Rogers care about you?

Seriously, think as a CEO and you'll realize the best decision is to avoid managing multiple wireless networks that aren't compatible with each other and fight for spectrum capacity.

The best decision and highest revenue is to shutdown Inukshuk and expand LTE.

LTE exists in some rural areas today (I live in a Rural area east of Ottawa and have 4G coverage). Agreed, it will never be available everywhere. But again, Bell and Rogers don't care about rural areas, only urban.

It's meaningless to argue against that.

I think you're missing the point. Inukshuk was awarded the licence for that spectrum SPECIFICALLY because they were going to build a rural broadband network with it. By shutting it down, Rogers and Bell are now making Rural Broadband unobtainable to a lot of people who can't afford to spend in excess of $100 a month (or even $1000s) to replace their previous $60/mo service. If they aren't going to use that spectrum for what it was originally licenced for, they should lose it.
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Tom

I'm not sure you understand how spectrum licensing works. That's not how Industry Canada distributed it, regardless of what people think their intentions were.

And although it partly was to provide broadband access to Rural areas, the majority of the spectrum coverage was issued in Urban areas (around two-thirds of it).

reply to DS256
Talked with Rogers this week. No seasonal consideration till after the 2 year contract which means its questionable.

I then talked with SureNet that will provide Wireless on a seasonal basis for a 2 year contract.

Re: Rogers shutting down Portable Internet service

I know I'm fighting uphill based on legacy satellite and old unlicensed networks, but the new networks really are robust and reliable, and a heck of a lot better than most people's experience on sticks, hubs, and unlicensed WISP. Xplornet is worth another look.

Feel free to post or PM me about certain areas, I can tell you if the service available there is new or legacy.

reply to abitbent
I begrudgingly made the switch to the Rocket Hub in mid-January (didn't have much choice) and found the download speeds are sproradic with latency being far worse than with Portable Internet.
Since then I've consistently had problems with latency (ping tests exceeding 400ms on a frequent basis) regardless of whether I'm surfing on weekdays, weeknights, or weekends. I've called their tech(less) support on several occasions and they haven't been helpful at all in addressing the issue. I'm now at the point where the service is unusable and, if this continues after next week, I'll terminate my service (despite the 2-year BS contract) and launch a law suite against Rogers (may consider a class-action suite if others are willing to join in). Selling a service that clearly doesn't live up to their claims is false advertising and fraudulent.

reply to abitbent
I did find out about Inukshuk being shut down a while ago. This network was jointly operated by Bell and Rogers and initially cost the Canadian taxpayer a good chunk of tax payer money. They have caved in to Rogers and Bell to make the bandwidth available to cellular service using the rather lame argument about compatibility with the European system. Therefore both Bell and Rogers are shutting down their respective Portable Internet services. (I am wondering if some people within Inukshuk are receiving some nice benefits...)
I reluctantly got a Rockethub - and it worked OK. The only problem I have now is that Rogers cancelled all my email address because it seems that cancelling the portable internet cancels all email addresses associated with that account and while the people I was dealing with within Rogers knew I was being forced to cancel and was transferring to a Rockethub nobody transferred the email addresses to my new account. I wish some Rogers employee will cancel Ted Rogers' email address just out of the blue while he is waiting for an email for a multimillion deal. I would expect something would be done. I am very upset as I am dealing with government, pension funds, and others in my efforts to settle my wife's estate - I have given everybody my email address and any email will be bounced back until they re-instate the emails. This is unacceptable, stupid, heartless, insensitive behaviour. The least they could do is send a weeks warning email first - that would allow the customer to react before there is a problem.

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