[kwlug-disc] Cable internet price increase

[B.S.]

Agreed.

You must have a termination date for Rogers. With that date Acanac can book their taking over responsibility for the line.

I expect the same would be true for any cable wholesaler.

Switched to Fibe Wed., my Acanac year is up tomorrow.

Rogers finally killed analogue cable TV. After much digging, Bell turned out cheapest. $82/month for 50/10/unlimited, basic cable, basic home phone (which is a real landline). I will not use the home phone (happy and much better features with voip.ms), but the addition of the 3rd service brings in many bundling deals, like free equipment and $150 off installation. I'm actually paying $10 less now than before, with unlimited internet in the bargain.

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> From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 11:51 AM
>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Cable internet price increase
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>On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <aklists at mixdown.ca> wrote:
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>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>>> From what I remember, the installation fee was waived or reduced because I was on Rogers, and it is just an administrative switch (no technician visit or anything physical to do).
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>>A friend just went through this; Teksavvy said that they had to disconnect the cable internet before they could “take over” — basically they had told him he would possibly be without cable internet for two weeks while this transitioned. It was claimed that this was a requirement of Rogers.
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>>He ended up getting Teksavvy VDSL instead to avoid the disruption in service.
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>That is odd ... 
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>When I switched, there was no such thing with Rogers and Vmedia. No one visited, and I was transferred. Can't remember if there was downtime, and if so, it was a few hours.