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mr bill OOOOOOOOoh NOoooOOO!!!
Why slam CityWest? Who else in Terrace or Prince Rupert offers internet speeds anywhere close to 15 MB - and no cap??? I live in Jackpine Flats outside of Terrace and now have 15 MB internet access - yahoo. All Telus will say is that I have to call them to see what they can do for me … I left them a few years ago because they only offered at most 3 MB adsl … and they are not investing in upgrades in the NW. All you folks seem to want to live in the proverbial middle of nowhere but get big city service at dirt cheap prices …
And with a Telus iPhone I get around 7 MB down and 2 MB up … but the data plans are ridiculously expensive …
I don’t think people are slamming the 15meg upgrade. I’m not, anyway. I think it’s a good upgrade.
But how many millions of dollars did the taxpayers of Prince Rupert pay to buy the cable company to provide you with that great upgrade in Jackpine Flats?
Is your Telus phone HSPA or LTE? I’m getting more than 20meg down at times on mine. Still … no caps on SpeakOut. I used 18gigs of data on my SpeakOut phone last month. $10.
I upgraded to 15 meg and I’m enjoying the web again. I hope they continue to upgrade to provide speeds the rest of Canada has access to eg 50 or even 100 meg.
[quote=“MiG”]The 15 meg upgrade is a good one, as is the dropping of caps. Both of these they said were impossible just a year ago.
The speedtest better than x% of Canadians doesn’t mean that’s what’s available to x% of Canadians, dex. Just what people have tested at their site.
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I agree. I should have been more precise in my statement: “According to SpeedTest.net Citytel offers a package at least faster than 60% of the Canadian contributors to SpeedNet, with over 40 million Canadian tests per month from over 9 million distinct IP’s supporting SpeedNet’s statistics.”.
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If you go to speedtest.net with a 1meg connection from Citywest, it’s going to rank it pretty bad – doesn’t mean that’s the best that’s available from Citywest.
I have 100meg from Shaw, and I could have chosen 1meg, 5meg, 10meg, 20meg, 50meg, etc. They also have options with no caps. Testing each of these at Speedtest.net doesn’t tell you anything about what’s available in your area. Just how many people have tested with a certain speed at their site.
It’s not a valid conclusion to say that Citywest offers faster speeds than 68% of Canadian ISPs, though. Just that 15meg is faster than 68% of speed tests from Canada.
Still, the upgrades are very positive for Citywest. It’s definitely forward-looking, rather than sticking to the past. Will their mobile division do the same soon?[/quote]
60% of Canadians aren’t living in a municipality that, despite being on the verge of bankruptcy, decided to spend millions buying a cable company to compete with private enterprise. And they did it very quickly, with no public input.
So yes, upgrades are good and overdue. But don’t come to taxpayers asking for higher taxes for municipal services after deciding that providing improved internet to Terrace, Kitimat, Hazelton (and lots of other towns) was the priority for a broke Prince Rupert.
Don’t get me started on how much the “we asked around and nobody wants it” mobile strategy cost Prince Rupert taxpayers.
Finally, I don’t think it’s accurate to say that Telus isn’t investing the Northwest BC. They’ve increased their bandwidth plenty. They also upgraded their mobile system in the last few years (they asked around and people did want it). HSPA and LTE, while Citywest stuck it out with CDMA. Hartley Bay, Haida Gwaii, etc, all have great Telus cell service.
Telus is limited by using DSL (hence the crappy speeds in Jackpine Flats), but if you’re close enough, they have 15meg and faster speeds available in Terrace and Kitimat.