Rogers → Re: Rogers Upstream Bonding

To be fair, Rogers has invested a lot into it's cable network since then. All the tiers are faster, there was no 75/2mbps Ultimate tier, no extreme plus, no Docsis 3, and really not a whole lot of TPIA (besides sketchy 3Web back in the day who used to take months to respond to customers).

After initial plant builds, the cost of running an ISP comes down exponentially. Canadian ISPs have wasted billions of dollars and almost a decade of time now playing with practically dead fixed-line technologies.

Here's the kicker. Every day "they" think it's a great idea to wait longer for the cost of fiber technology to fall, their plan gets derailed by increasing costs in labour. It should have just been done properly from the start-- stupid never learns.

One of the biggest reasons Sweden gradually stopped building copper networks almost 20 years ago and their gvt bankrolled/JV hundreds of projects was because the people wanted low cost and close to future proof technological infrastructure. Copper plant was more expensive to maintan than fiber. For example if you nicked a telephone feeder cable you had to replace the whole thing versus a quick splice job with its fiber equivalent.

Re: Rogers if you stayed on the same plan all decade your speed is in-line with what you expect for "broadband" in the first world, but you only arrived to this point through perpetual price increases and USAGE restrictions. How can you be anything but bitter? Faster speeds don't mean anything on their own...