Right? I saw that and I was like... who gave this guy the right to talk to the media? If I were corporate communications at Rogers I'd be freaking that this person made it onto camera with this crap
(Luckily my phone is Freedom and my Internet is an independent small Hamilton local ISP.)
Aren’t a lot of smaller ISPs going out of business right now because of the CRTC’s decision to allow the big 3 to charge more for wholesale rates? I recall TelSavvy being going outspoken about this.
I'm not sure of their business state, but yeah, it's not good.
For me, I'm rural and I use a 900mhz point to point wireless connection that caps out around 15-20mbps on a good day. The upside is it's provided by a local old school indie ISP ("NetAccess"). It's $130 CAD a month, which is... expensive... but unlimited which is far cry from the theft that Rogers was performing on me prior with the 3g (then LTE) connection I had that at first capped me at 25G per month @ $100 a month and eventually went up to a "generous" 100G and then charged insane overage fees. My teen daughter ran us up a $400 bill one month.
Bell and Rogers are now offering more competitive rural options (at the behest of the gov't) but I refuse to give them any more money.
(Luckily my phone is Freedom and my Internet is an independent small Hamilton local ISP.)