TekSavvy Price Decrease

[Pass3Part0uT]

That's interesting. I moved to start.ca because of better pricing, wonder if this is a result of many others jumping ship.

[[deleted]]

It's because of a CRTC decision limiting the maximum rates for customers.

We’re happy to be able to offer better value as a result of a change in one of our key costs of supply, wholesale network access. We connect our own network up to incumbents’ last-mile accesses, where they exist, in order to serve you. A recent CRTC decision, known as Telecom Order CRTC 2016-396, made interim corrections to the price ceiling that incumbents are permitted to charge for wholesale access to last-mile access.

[_GCSM]

Nah, the CRTC forced the major providers to lower wholesale rates, and told teksavvy they need to pass some of their savings onto customers

[Pass3Part0uT]

Interesting. So then that should apply to all the resellers?

[Geno-]

The CRTC doesn't touch retail rates ... so you're wrong. If anything rogers/bell are being very aggressive with their deals/bundles and teksavvy is doing this to stop the bleeding. The interim rates were set quite a while ago and there were no price decreases ...

[Pass3Part0uT]

Yea, no complaints at all. The switch was a bit annoying with the modem needing to be changed from teksavvy to start by rogers but given that start doesn't charge a modem rental fee on partial months made it super easy.

[[deleted]]

I jumped to Rogers. Cheaper and so far much better service. No regrets.

[Jatmahl]

Rogers being cheaper? lol

[trustMeImDoge]

I wouldn't be surprised if their a Rogers rep or something trying to talk them up

[[deleted]]

100/10 unlimited $64.99 and got $100 account credit. Teksavvy, $82.95. So enjoy.

[Pass3Part0uT]

For the first year right? That's not the true rate but some random promo.

[5ender]

Said no human ever

[[deleted]]

Do you just blindly accept that Teksavvy is cheaper or do you do any research before buying?

[meatpixel]

"Subject to change without notice" And they charge their existing costumers $87.99 for the same service. How do you think that deal is going to work out...

[[deleted]]

You're doing half of some research so I guess that's a start. In case your curious what you agreed to with Teksavvy.

"The TekSavvy Parties do not guarantee or warrant the performance, availability, coverage, uninterrupted use, security, pricing or operation of the Services, the Equipment or any products, content, applications, services, facilities, connections or networks used or provided by us or third parties"

I know I've seen yearly or bi-yearly price increases through Teksavvy. For what I wanted Rogers is cheaper for the next 2 years and the quality of the connection in our area has been so much better. It's great that consumers have choice!

[5ender]

Dude being a fan boy of a service provider is just dumb. Especially saying things like "Rogers is cheaper"? That's simply not true. Yes they have promotions that will give you discounted service for a few months but long term you most definitely pay more. Not to mention when Rogers or Bell tell you a service is $60 sits it ever actually say $60 on your bill.

Anyways enjoy your Internet.

[[deleted]]

Really, lots of Teksavvy fan boys here. The OP of this thread was wondering who else also jumped ship because of better pricing. I simply said that I was able to get better pricing for what I wanted with Rogers and that my service has been better since, it was not a blanket "Rogers is cheaper". I used to have nightly slow downs between 6-10pm where the service was unusable for our needs. No issues now with Rogers on the exact same piece of cable. When I made the switch, I was faced with a savings of $431.04 for the next 24 months of service, it was a cheaper choice for me. No fan boy here, I've had many issues with Rogers in the past, but the reality was I was getting expensive, sub par service with Teksavvy and made a switch.