@albertovalencia -- Shaw uses a hybrid system: fiber-optic cable from its central office to distribute its network, and then uses coaxial-cable for "the last mile" to your home.
However, what level of speed do you wish to pay for?
Shaw:
Fibre+300 $99/month
Fibre+750 $109/month
Fibre+ Gig $125/month
Fibre+ Gig 1.5 $165/month
Telus' web-site is not currently accessible, so no prices are currently available.
$ tracert www.telus.net
Tracing route to mytelus.telus.com [54.165.41.78]
4 12 ms 11 ms 10 ms rc1wt-be40.wa.shawcable.net [66.163.68.18]
5 33 ms 34 ms 34 ms rc3so-be82.cg.shawcable.net [66.163.76.10]
6 66 ms 63 ms 63 ms rc4ec-be13.il.shawcable.net [66.163.65.18]
7 76 ms 63 ms 64 ms 99.82.178.252
8 78 ms 68 ms 63 ms 52.93.249.117
9 63 ms 63 ms 63 ms 52.95.62.77
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * ^C
$ ping www.telus.net.
Pinging mytelus.telus.com [54.165.41.78] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 54.165.41.78:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Note that "speed costs money". Although Telus' "Fiber To The Home" is theoretically faster than Shaw's "Fibre+" network, if you don't pay for the highest-possible speed, it really does not matter whether you choose Telus or Shaw.
The primary advantage of switching to Telus at the end of your Shaw two-year Value Plan is that you will get "new customer" discounted pricing from Telus, for the first 12 months. A secondary advantage is that Telus' "upload" speeds are much faster than Shaw's upload speed, if your personal Internet usage does a lot of uploading.
But, faster speeds on Telus apply only when the Telus network is "up". 😞
