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Rogers Study Says Canadian Broadband Secretly Awesome
Just Ignore the High Prices, Low Caps, Heavy Throttling
by Karl Bode Monday 06-Feb-2012 tags: business · bandwidth · stats · consumers · Rogers Hi-Speed
Not only to Canadians lay claim to some of the most expensive broadband among all developed countries it's also among the lowest quality, with numerous ISPs heavily throttling data and imposing unreasonably low caps and high overages in the HD video age. What are you to do if you're an ISP like Rogers and the data repeatedly shows Canadian broadband is expensive and heavily capped due to weak competition? You fund your own study. A new study funded by Rogers insists Canadians now enjoy some of the fastest and least expensive broadband service anywhere:

The report, based on the results of 52 million speed tests of broadband users across the G7 countries and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) membership, was produced by Montreal-based consulting firm Lemay Yates Associates Inc. on behalf of Rogers Communications Inc., the country's largest broadband service provider. It disputes the OECD's own report, published in July, that ranked Canada's high-speed Internet offerings significantly below those of other countries.

You really only have to look at Rogers prices and caps, our user reviews, and the fact that Rogers is among the worst ISPs when it comes to clumsy network management to understand why Rogers would want to fund a new study of their own contradicting all previous studies. The speed tests used by Rogers to declare themselves supreme winners of the Internet benefit from Speed Boost technology (known as Powerboost here in the States) and don't really consider usage limits or Rogers' tendency toward slowing down legitimate traffic.

You can head to our Rogers forum to see exactly what the ISP's own users think about discovering they're getting such great broadband service.

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Angrychair

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Lake Wobegon effect

Never heard of an industry funded study labeling their funders as anything but the utter peak of achievement and value.

It's sort of like the mass shared insanity of the large percentage of Americans that think they're better off without socialized health care as opposed to the for profit death paneled system that America currently has.

Stewy
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Canadians claim to some of the most expensive broadband

Rogers dividends per share..

2011 - 1.42
2010 - 1.28
2009 - 1.16
2008 - 1.00
2007 - 0.42

Need we say more

Romney2012
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Here is the actual report for those interested

Here is the actual report for those interested:
rogers.pdf 898215 bytes


The results achieved by Canada using our methodology based on real user speed tests indicate that Canada’s ranking among OECD countries is always much better than rankings published by the OECD. We attribute these differences to the following characteristics of LYA’s methodology:

 The LYA methodology is based on real end-user measured speeds as opposed to
advertised speeds; the difference between actual and advertised broadband speeds
can be significant.
 The LYA analyses reflects the market share of individual ISPs in each country,
thus if a telco with mainly DSL based broadband offerings has the highest market
share, this will be reflected in our analysis;
 The LYA pricing analysis incorporates the relative split of subscribers to
broadband services below and above 10 Mbps downstream speed for each
country, thereby implicitly reflecting the availability and relative affordability of
all ranges of broadband services.



andyb
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Re: Here is the actual report for those interested

Take your $99.99 package divide it by the 50mb it comes with and you have rogers math

Rambo76098

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Re: Here is the actual report for those interested

LOL they paid someone to do that? You don't need a consulting firm to do a report that simple (and flawed), a child in middle school could do that.

Rogers:
"Well, our basic math using flawed reasoning says our prices are very reasonable*. This self-funded study is clearly better than the real statistics and math the OECD did."
*Please ignore that despite a high speed package, there are also low caps, the high-speed is only temporary (powerboost!), and our other plans are very expensive even by our own math.

saneblane

@speakeasy.net

Big deal

Rogers forgot to mension that the places over them in the placing chart don't have UBB.

Merovingian
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Postals

Soon we'll be hearing about nutjobs going to Rogers or Bell and literally going POSTAL over their unfair practices, price gouging, apathy, doubble dipping, crtc cronyism; and thats just scratching the surface. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal
jfmezei
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Re: Postals

$2.68/mbps in canada you say ?

5mbps @$30.00 yields $6 per mbps. Not $2.68 And that $30 is from indie ISPs, you get dinged much more when going with incumbents.

They should have labeled that graph "best price/mbps" instead of "average price/mbps".
sonicmerlin

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tippy tip

Hey I tipped it... but no mention... sad moo...

Chuck sTruck

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April Fools

Oh it's only February the sixth.
chgo_man99

join:2010-01-01
Schaumburg, IL

But McDonalds in Canada is cleaner and fancier?

How come broadband there could be worse and more expensive than in the US? I don't understand Canada...

Juggernaut
Irreverent or irrelevant?
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Halarious!

My ISP's page on my connection:

»shaw.ca/Internet/High-Speed-10/

That's $4.50 per mbps charge. This report is a complete, and utter lie.

morbo90

@shawcable.net

Re: Halarious!

I use the same ISP, and pay 46 cents per Mbps. And yes, I always get full speeds (well, at least 225+).

»shaw.ca/Internet/Broadband-250/

imaclatchie

@rogers.com

What's worse ...

Salt in the wounds is the fact that "Cloud" is coming fast and furious. With the advent of everything from your storage to your apps to your local OS coming "as a service" from the net, we'll need more and cheaper internet - not less and more expensive.

Canada will be the laughing stock of the developed countries when our people will need to decide between feeding the kids or turning on their PC.

It just doesn't make sense.

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