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Rogers’ Challenges Athletes to Beat Its Download Speeds, But People Don’t Have Usage Caps

Phillip Dampier September 13, 2012 Canada, Competition, Consumer News, Editorial & Site News, Internet Overcharging, Rogers, Video 1 Comment

Rogers is serving up its Ultimate Internet service, with speeds up to 150/10Mbps, by challenging some of Canada’s biggest athletes to try and beat the company’s broadband speeds.

http://www.phillipdampier.com/video/Rogers Ultimate Bundle Challenge.flv

Tennis Pro Milos Raonic: For Milos’ challenge, we set up a tennis court in a Toronto warehouse, with a “play” button target at one end.  We challenged Milos to serve the ball and hit the target to play a song, faster than we could download it using Rogers Ultimate Internet. Let’s not forget Milos is well known for his powerful serve, reaching 250 km/hr. He has also served more aces than any other player so far in 2012. Does Rogers Ultimate Internet have a chance against a champion like Milos?  (1 minute)

Apparently more often than not, judging from Rogers’ video. But one thing Raonic has going for him, as a human being, is no usage cap. As our loyal reader Alex points out, Rogers’ Ultimate Internet only includes a downright piddly 250GB a month, which is quite a little for customers paying just shy of $123 a month for Internet access. Rogers slaps a $0.50/GB overlimit fee on this tier, with a maximum of $100.

That leaves super-premium customers feeling like they can take Rogers’ screaming fast Internet service on a 15-lane highway with a 250kph speed limit for around five kilometers before hitting the toll booth.

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  1. Alex perrier says:

    Nice article! Too bad for the limit. Although they may have a good network, it would only be because people pay a lot for it. Therefor, it can’t be used to its full potential.







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