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Rogers Ultimate Speed Comes At The Ultimate Price of $150/month, Reportedly Capped At 150GB Of Usage
Rogers Cable today announced it was preparing to launch a DOCSIS 3-based upgrade to its cable modem service in parts of metropolitan Toronto this summer with a promotional router giveaway and the unveiling of a 50Mbps “Ultimate” Tier for $149.99 a month.
The first 50 customers who sign up for the company’s First 50 to 50 promotion will receive a wireless “N” router and be the first to get the Ultimate tier when it launches.
Unfortunately, company officials have confirmed there will be a usage cap on the service (all Rogers Cable broadband services are capped), but they have not officially announced the cap limit yet. One of our Ontario readers contacted Rogers customer service and was told the cap was 150GB per month, which killed his interest in the service immediately.
“That’s $1 a gigabyte, which is completely ridiculous,” Jim Jensen wrote to us this afternoon. “I currently subscribe to their 10Mbps service which has a ludicrous 95GB cap, and that costs me $50 a month,” he said.
“You’d think this greedy company would at least cough up three times my current cap for three times what they charge me now, but apparently not,” he said.
Jensen told Rogers he’s taking a pass.
“It’s bad enough I am stuck in a country that is in a race to offer us lower caps and throttled speeds for higher prices, but there is no darned way I am giving Rogers $150 a month for 50Mbps which could put me past the cap after two hours of usage a month,” Jensen said.
“What are these people smoking?” he added.
The Rogers representative did not not know what upload speed was provided with the Ultimate tier.
Other stories of interest:
- Cogeco Offers Unlimited WiFi to iPhone/iPod Owners in Toronto for $5 Month
- Clearwire Service Area – Rochester, New York: Outside of the Metro? Clearwire Remains an “Iffy” Proposition
- Californians Launch Class Action Lawsuit Against HughesNet for Slow, Capped Service
- Audio from Toronto Internet Town Hall Now Available
- NBC Plans to Stream NFL Football This Fall: A False Start Called for Capped Customers
Wow! What are they smoking up there?
*Edit: Funny…I typed my comment before I read the whole article. Mr. Jensen and I have a similar mindset I guess.
I don’t know what they are smoking but I got to try some. Must be some
good stuff. If they think that is going to work they should switch to needles.
Do the first 50 people also get a Tee shirt that says Rogers on the
front and sucker on the back?
Heh. You reminded me of some of the T-Shirts I’ve gotten from ThinkGeek (Wi-Fi Detecting T-Shirt anyone? Detector in the front, “Geek” on the back). That would be hilarious if that did happen.
LOL, kinda of defeats the purpose of getting a high speed line. They must be doing some really good drugs over at Rogers.
i have a 10mbit line…. with only 100GB download limits… i pass it every time…. but 50mbit for 150… does not stand a chance! …… not much a Canadian 19 yo like me can do tho….. bell and rogers are on power trips… the major cable and DSL company… to combat their resellers they make everyone worse off. not to mention in the process they get to fulfill their get rich quick skeems!
i mean bells caps started due to their resellers offering internet tv….hmmmmmmmm now bell needs to save it’s tv though the CAP! making internet TV impossible…. funny how they were so stupid as to not just offer it themselves
… now i don’t understand why rogers is doing this… i really don’t think they have a tight grasp on the internet monopoly in Canada… and they need to squeeze as much as they can out of it….. and everything around them… they are just making everything worse….
Heading for a more serious comment is it Canada? No Canada is a nice country. Is it Canadians? No they are a nice bunch of people who also suffer the same economic worries we do here. Actually I think they have it a bit better because their exports are mostly raw materials and much of that comes to the USA. It only slowed down because WE slowed down. Now is it the Canadian providers and or the Canadian government. The answer would be a resounding yes. How much from each I will not venture a guess (what percent it is) No person in a board room would ever dream of something so absurd thinking it would actually work. Any person in any board room has to be crazy any sort of caps will work. It rests with the people’s ability to live without tv or internet and just say NO for a while. See what the stock holders think of that TW stock sitting at $.10 per share. Looking at the graphs, comments, and outside sources people are indifferent to the whole thing they do not understand what is at stake. People want jr. Massa out, Schumer out, and Paterson out. The lobby bucket will make that happen. Cuomo and Spitzer could be in. Spitzer made a very good NY AG. These are the people that we need and get their ear first. Anyone lesser is just a waste of time. Massa blesses his heart just how long does it take a bill to get to Washington? Let me guess it’s still on the drawing table many months later. Schumer love photo ops, TW, Hickey freedom etc. then he just moves on and really does not do anything. Runs his mouth and says we won’t be a test tube…Ok now no test tube but the sharks are still swimming in the tank. Where was the follow up? Where was Massa follow up? There wasn’t any. No BS how it takes a long time. Bush / OB crammed 800 billion through in a couple of weeks. Just say no with the wallet. You lived without cable tv, the internet, and cell phones before you can do it again.
Does anyone know if Google has officially weighed in on this yet? I would bet they may in the future if they have not yet.
With them just announcing their Chrome OS, and it relying on the internet so much (from what I can tell), caps are going to hurt this effort.
150 GB cap with 50 MBIT service?
That’s like being given a Corvette and then being told you can drive it as fast as you want…for 500 meters, then you have to stop.
DOCSIS 3 is almost old tech. Fine they want me to have it ill pay for the
router but nothing more. If there is something about DOCSIS I learned it
makes their system do so much much more for about no effort on their
part. $149 a month im gone, $99.95 a month im gone and I wont even
miss it. Im tired of these games. The democrats in NY just got back
control of the the senate. Hold onto you wallets…. here comes millions
of new taxes and fees to go along with your new internet costs. So much
more I want to say but can not.