somewhat OT. What do people think of Telus

[Mark Lane]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:21 AM, William O'Higgins Witteman
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:41:03AM -0400, Fabio FZero wrote:
>>I'm interested too. I'll probably get a post-paid account this month
>>and since everybody hates Rogers and Bell, I'd like to know if you
>>people hate Telus equally.
>
> I suspect that because the CRTC is chaired and run by former industry
> people that they are a "captured" regulator - i.e. they are incapable of
> advocating for the consumer in a consistent and dedicated way.  As such,
> no telco is going to have any incentive to suck less than their
> competitors.  The loophole that I have found is using resellers whose
> value proposition is not being a**holes (vis Teksavvy).
>
> In my experience, Fido/Rogers, Bell and Telus could all suck-start a
> leaf-blower - their policies and behaviours look outright antisocial.
> When I started with Fido they had not been bought by Rogers (once that
> happened their customer service vanished) and they were slightly less
> offensive, but ultimately I go with a provider using a more flexible,
> standards-based platform (GSM: Rogers, Fido) than one encumbered by a
> nasty patent-holder (Qualcomm) (CDMA: Telus, Bell).  I have not looked
> hard at Wind or Virgin or Koodo, but I plan to relatively soon.

Koodo is just Telus rebranded and Virgin was bought out by Bell (they
had already owned 50%). So looking into them is probably not worth it.

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