Rogers scrap the $25 cap on high speed internet plans

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By: Energy Complaints | posted in Internet, Reviews |
Date: July 29th, 2010

We just receive our Rogers bills and we notice we are now paying over $100 per month for our high speed internet service with Rogers. Our current high speed internet package with Rogers is Express, which should cost $46.99 per month without tax, except we usually pass our monthly bandwidth usage.

Our maximum internet usage is 60 GB per month with the Express plan from Rogers. If we use more than 60 GB per month we’ll have to pay $2 for every 1 GB we use with a maximum overcharge cap at $25 dollars. So our high speed internet cost was $46.99 (Express package) + $25 (over usage cap) + $3 (modem rental) = $74.99 + apx. 15% tax = apx. $86.24 per month.

Apparently, Rogers changed their high speed internet overcharge cap from $25 to $50 dollars starting from February 2010. I phoned Rogers and the service rep I talked to said 90% of their high speed internet customers never use the maximum cap and that was reason they increased the over usage cap from $25 to $50 dollars.

hmmm…ok? Why not leave it as $25, since not a lot of people use it. Make no sense, the only sense it make was to increase profit $$$. I guess it is a nicer way to say no one use it than we want more money.

This mean we will have to look for a new cheaper high speed internet service. We cannot pay any more than $40-$50 dollars per month on our high speed internet service.

What we’re looking for our high speed internet service:

1. $40-$50 per month
2. Cable, DSL or ADSL
3. 150 GB to 200 GB per month, ideally Unlimited bandwidth

We live in a residential area with about 4 internet users, so we need at least 150 GB – 200 GB of bandwidth each month, but would love to go with an unlimited high speed internet service plan.

But how do you figure the top internet providers with the best high speed internet offer?

Well, I have put together this page for my research and it is basically all the top internet providers in Ontario. These top internet providers are:

Bell, Cogeco Cable, Distributel, Teksavvy, Telus, Primus Telecommunications, Yak Communications, and even Rogers.

Why them? Because they are the most popular high speed internet providers in Ontario.

See which internet service provider we are going to switch to on this page, best high speed internet offers.

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