said by Eug:I think even $10 or $15 would be fair, to be honest. If the mandated charge is $5 for Rogers, then TSI is essentially doing this for free at $5.
It's good that others are doing this for free though. Competition is good, to keep TSI's fee down at $5, which to me is pretty much inconsequential. Seriously, how many times a year would you plan on changing the speed? Even if twice a year, that still works out to less than $1 per month.
If you really want to change your speed 10X per year, there are other options, but I would guess some of those options would get pretty irritated with you as a customer after a while.
+1.
Without TekSavvy Canadian Internet access would be in a hell of state.
As my wife says, paying TekSavvy for Internet access is as much about getting access to the Internet as it is about paying someone to make sure we -can- get access to the Internet.
Rogers, I'm quite sure, would be happy to sell us a "lite" version of the Internet, sans streaming video, P2P and VoIP. Companies like TekSavvy have helped keep that commercially unviable.
If TekSavvy wants to earn a profit on the change fee I'm happy to pay it should I choose to change tiers. Passing the $5 cost on means they're spending time and effort for no reward... and -that- would actually be "unfair".
Consider the alternatives.