said by rustydusty:TV and Phone, Shaw and Telus are usually in similar ball parks if you want to compare. Different bundles, plans, promotions, etc. The quality is fairly close, although I think my Optik HD looked a little better than my Shaw HD, IMO. You want to compare hardware or internet, though, Shaw is far superior as of now. Don't bother trying to argue congestion or "sharing" with your neighbours. The line issues that can happen with Telus are just as bad as possible congestion with any cable provider. In 9 years, I had a 6 month spell of congestion where my speeds were half where they should be. Regardless of that, I run biz at home, and Telus couldn't come close to anything I currently have with Shaw. They can't even provide me an upload more than 1Mb with Static IP's. The price of fiber/T1's are absolutely mind blowing, on any provider. The fact they can charge $300/month for a single T1 is mind blowing. Sure it's a consistent 1.4Mb/s speed, however the technology is so old it's from the 50's! How they can get away with charge prices for such an old and terrible service is beyond me.
Because t1's are a specialty service, it is not designed for average consumer usage. and please don't mix up congestion with line conditions because shaw can suffer line conditions as well. I have yet to run into a trouble where a Telus customer is suffering from congestion issues because telus knows how to build a network to support the speeds they advertise.