Rogers lowers monthly data allowance for residential customers, increases speed

Win some you lose some…at least they weren’t touching cellular data allowances…

That’s still plenty of data.

Lol and Verizon and AT&T are telling us live on 2GB’s a month.

Adam, can we get you enrolled in a high school reading comprehension class?

This is residential service…VZW and ATT are wireless services. Good job, chief.

Rogers can f***ing go to hell.

Isn’t technology supposed to get cheaper? How does Rogers consistently get away with charging more for less? Anyone using iTunes, and now Netflix for their TV content and movies is certainly going to run into these caps. Antitrust in Canada should be all over this. Somebody at the Competition Bureau needs to wake up!!!

Nice, the increased speed and lower caps=quicker overages than ever. What the hell is that aboot ay?

Sorry, I’m lame sometimes.

For those of you whom didn’t grow up during pay-by-the-minute 300bps and 2400bps modems, welcome.

I’m paying $42 for 95GB/mth, but once my 1-year contract ends and the 30% discount disappears, I’m going to TekSavvy.

Rogers is piece of crap. They rip consumers off.

That’s like “blessing” a man with a bigger penis but chopping off his testicles..

Great job, Robbers.

omfg.

Their internet already sucks, and is always down in my area. Add insult to injury, they decide to throttle everything -_-

Rogers sucks. I used to have their ultralite package with 60gb bandwidth, then they switched it to 2gb…but let us remain at 60 for 2 yrs. Then 2 yrs later they bumped up prices AND lowered bandwidth to 2GB for everyone. I switched to techsavvy after…$25 bucks a month (less than rogers), 4Mb/s (compared to rogers 512 haha), and 200gb bandwidth (uh….100 times more than rogers). Great service from techsavvy!

Their internet already sucks, and is always down in my area. Add insult to injury, they decide to throttle everything -_- Webmaster

Have to remember with CBC’s alarmist reporting that Rogers Communications is one of CBC’s major competitors in the high revenue TV market. CBC loves to get in digs at Rogers whenever it can.

The new terms apparently apply only to new accounts. This 20 year subscribers has heard nothing about them, nor anything about Teksavy in Canada or about contracts for Internet with Rogers. It’s all month to month and claims otherwise are not credible.

In most parts of Canada there are two choices for Internet: Rogers/Shaw/Videotron (the incumbent cable companies, exclusive jurisdictions) or Bell/Telus (the incumbent phone companies). You can pick who you want to send you the bill for DSL over the phone line but you are still buying Bell/Telus service.

Rogers=Canadian Robbers

Its sad when we applaud an increase from 10Mbps to 15 Mbps. So sad, we should be getting 10 times this speed for the price.

So they lower the allowance but increase… So basically you’ll “run out” of data (before hitting overrage mode) quicker… Carriers are getting abso-fucking-lutely ridiculous.

You do realize that you guys represent a sliver of actual internet users? By the sounds of it none of you do. 80GB isn’t enough for you in a MONTH? Go outside for the love of God!

wait… Canadian ISPs put a cap on data?

That is really lame.

and this is why I’m still paying $30/month for 5mbps. I prefer to have a plan that 3 years old with no cap to data rather than have faster speeds that I can’t use. I download at least 200gb of games from steam each month.

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Not that I agree with it with what they’re doing, But if the reason they did it is to stop people from cancelling their cable and just using netflix and online streaming can anyone really blame them?, and please name another company that does not do all it can to protect themselves financially? They’re a business, and they’re not there to make it easier for competition to steal their earnings.

Why blame a company for doing what companies do, make money. Why are they allowed to do it? Who’s is charge of regulating the industry? Why arent they stopping this? They should be the ones to direct your anger at.

as always Canadians get robbed by those mothers fuckers (bell/Rogers) the problem is that We Canadians are like Sheep no one does fuck all. some of us might talk about it here and there but NO one does anything. if 5000 people gather and surround their building and demanding an explanation from who ever is in charge of investigating the robbery that (rogers and bell) do continuously in different ways whether its residential internet or wireless data or (forcing 3 years contract and outrages over charge plans and ……) then they might do something about it and for future reference they might think twice about it before trying to rip us off in such ways. but hey they do what ever the fuck they want they get hundreds of millions in profits and NO ONE does anything. where is the government that supposed to work for people? its bull shit we all know that, they most likely get paid to shut up and not say anything anyways

The way it works is that the Canadian government regulates all communication providers. The providers lobby the government for licences. Only a few licences are granted. The companies agree on the highest prices. This way the government gets the most tax.
There is no free competition. The government justifies it because they are “protecting” us.
Canadians are much more concerned with security than freedom. So we accept it and pay the price.