Moving from Bell Fibe to TekSavvy fiber.
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Moving from Bell Fibe to TekSavvy fiber.
On hold as Bell tries to cook up some retention deal.
But it's too late. I've already ordered TS.
If Bell wanted to retain me, they should've applied their best price pro-actively, instead of gradually cancelling all my promotional rates.
TS also offers a static IPv4 for $4/m and also provides IPv6 service, which probably makes the static IPv4 unnecessary.
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huh, after being on hold for 10m, I was surprised they didn't bother to make a retention attempt. Maybe that's gone out of style.
Other than the complex cancellation of promotions that caused the price to climb way above going market rates, the Bell Fibe internet service was great. I don't think it was ever down. Even after the derecho wiped out Barrhaven's power for 2 weeks.
TV: was OK. The box/app was pretty flaky.
Home Phone: never used. Thrown in for free...
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had a phone actually plugged into it, never gave out the number, and after it kept ringing with spam/scam robodiallers, I unplugged it.
Only had it because it was actually negatively billed, cheaper to have it than not. Nothing suspicious about that as a commercial practice.
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@johnefrancis it seems to be going out of style? I'm going to switch cell phone providers soon, not because I want to but because all the providers seemingly make their good plans available only to new customers. Called my current provider, talked to "retention" and said basically they just have to put our current phones on "new customer" plans to keep our business. They couldn't do it.
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@dragonfrog I switch mobile plans every 2 or 3 years. The phone hut inside Costco has given me the most incredible deals, and the staff can explain every charge on a complex plan, and the bills actually turn out exactly as they've explained. The hut works for all the telcos, so they know who's got the best deal. Rogers at the moment, due for a visit in May.
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@johnefrancis We can get TekSavvy fibre now? How much?
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@johnefrancis @dragonfrog Are all of those phone deals still from awful companies?
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@human3500 eh, starts under $100 for 1.5gbps unlimited, although it rises after a while. It's not a great amount cheaper than Bell, depending on your lifecycle of promo rates. $4 for a static IP though, that's a great deal.
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@johnefrancis I'd be interested to see the signal quality once it's installed. I don't think my cable Internet quality is all that hot.
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@human3500 shitty Rogers cable line was why I left TS. They couldn't get Rogers to do anything. But I'm happy to go back on fiber. I believe it's going to work great, or not at all. No rain changing the capacitance of my cable line etc.
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@human3500 signal level: an invisible laser that will burn a hole in you.
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@human3500 @johnefrancis they are the phone companies, yes
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@dragonfrog @johnefrancis Videotron hasn't been evil in my experience. They actually are fantastic.
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@human3500 @dragonfrog I was with Videotron for a while, it was ok. I don't find the mobile companies as bad, more competitive market than fixed internet. Have also been with Bell, Rogers, Wind Mobile... every one except Telus
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@[email protected] been thinking about this too.
I felt dirty when I ditched Start for Bell, but the fiber trucks had done their job and the fiber wasn't dark anymore, so the thought of 1Gbps was compelling.
Now that TekSavvy can resell I'll likely switch, but Bell's promotional rate still beats TekSavvy's rate after their promo ends.
I'd pay a premium to use TSI, but not that big of one...
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@[email protected] For 1.5 Gbps, apples-to-apples
- Bell, $135 - $55 = $80 pre-tax
- TSI, $120 - $20 = $100 pre-tax
So purely out of principle I would pay $5-$10 more monthly for TekSavvy/Start, but a 25% jump... The Bell folks did their math on that one.
I don't actually know when the promo ends, though, I should check.
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@julian TS offers a static IP for $4. It's not normally available on a Bell residential service, was $36/month on a business service last I checked. No IPv6 on Bell residential.
As an existing Bell customer, I'd have to fight to get any promotional rates. Not worth it.
The principles matter to me.
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@[email protected] completely fair. It's obvious by what you said earlier that Bell has no intention of working to retain customers. Their focus is on poaching customers from resellers (aka me).
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@johnefrancis Can you do me a favour while you're still on Bell and try to go to TheGladstone.ca and see if you can get there? It's and a few other .ca sites don't work for me without a VPN.
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@johnefrancis @human3500 I got 1.5 for $55 a month from Bell and couldn't pass it up.
