@Allanbem -- Telus has recently put [fiber] optic on our street and offered quite good prices
Today, Telus called me, because I am the contact-person for a non-profit organization's web-site, through Telus Shared Hosting, via Telus Business.
I tried to explain to her that I am happy with the monthly fees for their web-hosting, but, personally, I have the Shaw "triple play" on a two-year Value Plan.
Her best offer was a three-year plan, with 1000 Mbps Internet for $100/month ("regular price is $220") and a Telus land-line for $15/month, and then a $10/month discount, bringing the total to $105/month. Currently, I am paying $98/month for "Internet 300" and $25/month for Shaw Phone, with a $10/month discount, bringing the total to $113/month.
Her "kicker" was a promise to "buy me out" of the 8 months remaining on the two-year contract, which is 8 times $20/month.
We never got around to comparing channels/prices for TV, nor their "equivalent" of the $0/month for my Shaw Mobile phone, nor the inability to use "ShawOpen" when I am not at home.
She really did not understand that very few web-sites can "push" data to me at 300 or 500 or 750 or 1000 Mbps. So, because I don't have any online-gamers to consume a chunk of my 300 mbps service, I don't need see any value in paying for speeds higher than 300 Mbps.
She also repeated what she had been trained to say, namely that I would have a "dedicated" fiber-optic line all the way to the Telus Central Office. Nonsense, since the infrastructure for both Shaw & Telus have "concentrators" on every street, creating a "shared" (but extremely fast) network up-and-down my street.
But, if "saving" $20/month for many months on a "buy-out" is want you want to amortize over the 3 (future) years of the Telus contract, do the math, and then go for it.
