Hey , I appreciate your long-standing business with us an...
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Hey @shaw_user1, I appreciate your long-standing business with us and thank you for your feedback. Our teams definitely want to ensure the Internet service best fits your needs. I understand that you enjoy Internet 15, we do have a 2-year value plan available for that service which is $65/mo. This locks the rate in for 24 months so you don't need to worry about rate adjustments. You will need to touch base with our customer support team members to get the plan. Feel free to reference them this thread.
> "Electricity 1000 plan" - 1000 kWh a month for $100. >...
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> "Electricity 1000 plan" - 1000 kWh a month for $100.
> "Electricity 1500 plan" - 1500 kWh a month for $120.
> "Electricity 2000 plan" - 2000 kWh a month for $130.
In B.C., there has been talk about lower electricity rates during "low-demand" periods, e.g., run your dishwasher/washer/dryer after midnight, and pay less per Kilowatt-hour.
Note that it costs Shaw a "fixed" amount to run their network all the way into your cable-modem. So, "Internet 1.0 Mbps" (if it still existed) would only be slightly cheaper than your current "Internet 15". For Shaw, it's just reprogramming the modem to deliver 1.0 or 15.0 speed. Want your modem to run faster? Then, pay more to Shaw. Economists say "fixed costs versus variable costs".
When I first signed-up with Shaw, I got 5.0 Mbps. Later, a free upgrade to 7.5 Mbps. Later, a free upgrade to 10.0 Mbps (with Shaw SpeedBoost up to 30 Mbps during a download of a file), and finally an upgrade to 15 Mbps (no SpeedBoost). Yes, along the way, there were annual price-increases by Shaw within my "grandfathered" plan.
Also, over the years, there have been price-increases in gasoline, heating-oil, and other consumables by non-Shaw companies. The first brand-new automobile I purchased (1973) was about $3000; my latest brand-new automobile purchase was about TEN times as much. The first house I bought was for $39,000. Today, that same plot of land (excluding the house sitting on the land) is valued at over $500,000.
Moral: price-increases happen everywhere, including at Shaw. Just "freezing" the cost of Internet access is not feasible -- not by Shaw nor by BCTEL/AGT.
My shaw bill for only internet has gone up $8 in one year...
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My shaw bill for only internet has gone up $8 in one year, nothing has changed, no improved speed, nothing extra, No tv, just internet. Yes, it feels like price gouging for sure.