Cutting the Cord

[Evan Leibovitch]

I've been checking out vmedia as part of my shopping. IPTV isn't just
piggybacked onto regular Internet service, though if you buy IPTV from
vMedia you *must*  buy your Internet pipe from them too.

And, as you say, its minimum service includes all the other CRTC mandatory
cruft. Given that I can get five local channels with the equivalent of
rabbit ears, I think I can do without basic cable or IPTV.

Update: Just got off the phone with TekSavvy. They can do 50/10 FTTN to my
house for $55 (plus $8 mandatory modem rental) per month. That's half of
Rogers , with a higher cap that offers unlimited 2-8am. If I want 24/7
unlimited the cost is $85 -- still cheaper than Rogers with its 230GB cap.

Now to call Rogers. Let's see what their retention folks have in store. Can
they match this?

- Evan




On 22 April 2013 11:26, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:56:31AM -0400, John Myshrall wrote
>
> > I wish the other ISP's would start carrying TV. Hopefully this will
> > happen in the near future.
>
>   There are some like http://vmedia.ca and http://http://zazeen.ca The
> good news is that they're CRTC-compliant and legal.
>
>   The bad news is that they're CRTC-compliant and throw in all the usual
> mandatory pay-TV channels into their "basic" packages.  E.g. APTN, MUCH,
> CBC Newsworld, CP24, Weather Network, TSN, YTV, etc.  And I believe you
> have to subscribe to their internet service as well.
>
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
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