hopetindall
@rogers.com
| [Extreme] Hot off the wire: Rogers annouces 18Meg service
Attention News Editors:
Rogers launches fastest Internet modem speed setting for residential market: 18 megabits per second.
TORONTO, Aug. 2 /CNW/ - Rogers Cable Communications today announced plans
to launch an even faster new Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet service, which
will offer customers the fastest residential service. Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed
Elite will provide a speed of up to 18 megabits per second (Mbps) and will be
made available in Q4, 2006.
"Customers are using the Internet in more and different ways," said Terry
Canning, Vice President and General Manager, Internet Services for Rogers
Cable. Adding "Rogers will always offer customers innovative new services with
a wide range of choices and at a price that is packed with value."
The service will have a monthly fee of $99.95 and will include an
industry leading 100 GB of usage. In addition, customers of this service will
be able to purchase additional bandwidth for a charge of $1.25 per GB.
This new service will be offered in Rogers Cable service areas where the
Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Extreme service is currently available. Customers may
choose to either rent or purchase the modem.
About Rogers Cable:
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Rogers Cable Communications Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rogers
Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI; NYSE: RG), a diversified Canadian
communications and media company. Rogers Cable's advanced digital two-way
network passes approximately 3.4 million homes in Ontario, New Brunswick and
Newfoundland, with 66% basic penetration of its homes passed. Rogers Cable
pioneered high-speed Internet access and now 35% of homes passed by its cable
networks are Internet customers while 53% of its basic cable customers
subscribe to Rogers' high-speed Internet service. With 44% digital
penetration, Rogers Cable offers a leading selection of High Definition TV
programming, a complete array of Rogers On Demand services (including Video on
Demand (VOD), Subscription VOD, Personal Video Recorders and Timeshifting
channels), and an extensive line-up of sports and multicultural programming.
Rogers Cable now offers home telephone service (voice-over-cable) to
approximately 90% of its cable territory and, combined with its circuit
switched telephony subscribers, has nearly 550,000 local telephony customers.
Rogers Cable also owns and operates 299 Rogers Video stores.
Additional information on Rogers is available at www.rogers.com.
For further information: Taanta Gupta, (416) 935-4727,
Taanta.Gupta@rci.rogers.com |
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anon06
@rogers.com | source? |
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BayStBoi
@sympatico.ca | reply to hopetindall
It's on the press release wires:
»www.newswire.ca/en/releases/arch···984.html |
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MrFlooD
join:2003-10-28
Brampton, ON | Cool, but way too expensive for me. Almost double the price of extreme  |
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puzz1ed
join:2005-02-20
Markham, ON | No mention of upstream and notice the sign of things to come. Data charges after 100GB. |
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HiVolt
Premium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
clubs:
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to hopetindall
So let me get this straight. $100/month for 100GB cap, traffic shaping, lame email/webspace, AND they plan to charge for over usage with that flaky web usage tool? Ted's got balls.
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spaterson
Premium
join:2001-09-02
Gloucester, ON | reply to hopetindall
I wonder what the upload speed will be...
Scott |
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GI Suck
I Got Mail Yay
join:2004-01-14
Oshawa, ON
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said by HiVolt  :So let me get this straight. $100/month for 100GB cap, traffic shaping, lame email/webspace, AND they plan to charge for over usage with that flaky web usage tool? Ted's got balls. Must be suffering from cancer if he's doing stuff this stupid!
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idlewillkill
Go Blue
Premium
join:2005-09-28
North York, ON | reply to hopetindall
I'm guessing this is meant to compete with Bell's Optimax. This does actually look better than Optimax.... |
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anon06
@rogers.com | reply to hopetindall
upload is going to be 1Mbps apparently. |
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koolin
join:2005-12-20
Toronto, ON | reply to hopetindall
sooo whats happenning with the current extreme then, they really cant just leave us on 6mbps or can they??? |
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LaZ3R
Premium
join:2003-01-17
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
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LMAO!!! You pay $100, and are STILL STUCK WITH A FREAKING CAP? Wow... And even then charging $1.25 for every GB after 100. I think Ted Rogers needs to officially seek mental help. That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
I'm not even sure there is any other cable provider in North America that costs $100 and comes with a 100GB cap at that kind of speed.
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idlewillkill
Go Blue
Premium
join:2005-09-28
North York, ON
2 edits | Sympatico Optimax 10 includes 50 GB of download and upload capacity/month; $1.25 /additional GB, billed in increments of 1GB. Sympatico Optimax 16 includes 75 GB of download and upload capacity/month; $1.00 /additional GB
Edit: So if you want to take that one step further, 100 gigs a month on Optimax 10 would be $127.50, on Optimax 16 it would be $105. Optimax 16 would work out cheaper going over 120 gigs. This is, of course, assuming the pricing in Quebec holds in Ontario.
Edit again: I mis-read Rogers' overage charge to be $1.50 a gig, when it's actually $1.25 a gig. |
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Slapnuts
join:2002-11-14
canada
1 edit | reply to LaZ3R
said by LaZ3R :LMAO!!! You pay $100, and are STILL STUCK WITH A FREAKING CAP? Wow... And even then charging $1.25 for every GB after 100. I think Ted Rogers needs to officially seek mental help. That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. I'm not even sure there is any other cable provider in North America that costs $100 and comes with a 100GB cap at that kind of speed. Yup there is, Videotron's Extreme plus 20 meg down/ 1 meg up service is capped at 20 gigs down, and 10 gigs up. Now thats a low cap for that kind of speed:) Even sympaticos Optimax service is rumored to be capped at 75 gigs. So even though a cap of 100 gigs is still crappy with that type of speed, its still higher than what the competition is offering unfortunately.
The cost for the videotron service is 20 bucks less at $79.99 a month, but that savings will disappear quickly if you go over the cap:)
Vidéotron's network is among the most powerful, and distance has no impact on speed.
Quotas and Performance Grid Download speed Upload speed Monthly capacity
(Downloading) Monthly capacity
(Uploading)
Extreme High-Speed Internet Plus 20 Mbps 1 Mbps 20 GB* 10 GB* |
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puzz1ed
join:2005-02-20
Markham, ON
| reply to hopetindall
Apparently, Cogeco raised their top speed to 16Mbps yesterday and was touting it as the fastest. It also has a 100GB limit but is a lot cheaper. Looks like Rogers just wants to top them on paper. Not many people will sign up at $99/month plus overages so they don't actually have to deliver much. |
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GI Suck
I Got Mail Yay
join:2004-01-14
Oshawa, ON | reply to hopetindall
I think people forgot to read the footnote.
After exceeding the 150GB invisible cap, they decrease your speed to Ultra Lite for the remainder of the billing month. |
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insomx
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Canada
·Aliant Communicati..
| said by GI Suck :I think people forgot to read the footnote. After exceeding the 150GB invisible cap, they decrease your speed to Ultra Lite for the remainder of the billing month. Really? Now that's stupid....
WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF A 18MEG SERVICE WITH A 1MB UPLOAD, AND THROTTLED?
Sorry for the caps, but that needs to be screamed as loud as possible. 18mega-bits down, 1 tiny tiny mega-bit up. Plus it is throttled, so WTF is the sense? Whoever pays 100bucks a month for that is on crack (or sells it). |
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rossco2006
join:2006-07-30
Keswick, ON | reply to hopetindall
It's really funny how they call that cap "Industry Leading".
In other countries in europe connections over 20mbps are common, WITHOUT caps. |
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yoshisan
join:2006-02-13
Toronto, ON
| reply to hopetindall
Lets see....YAWN! I mean come on people. Nothing is gonna be like it used to be. Its gone and over! The unlimited use of bandwidth is dead. BW is now the future cash cow.
Who'd a thunk you would pay for BOTTLED WATER!
Sad to say but true... Greed is king... |
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Makaveli998
join:2002-04-23
| reply to rossco2006
This is not even worth it. double the price, 200kbps more upload then extreme service, 3x the download but big deal, who is gonna use that much bandwidth, and if u do that 100GB cap will be met in a matter of days.
I think they should offer a 10mbps/2mbps service for like $59.99 and drop extreme to $39.99 at 8mbps/1mbps
Express to $29.99 at 5mbps/800mbps
And the lower speeds drop there price by 5 dollars a month.
I wish one of those american cable providers would move up to canada, and give rogers some competition this monopoly BS is hurting internet in canada. |
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