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- JemmStar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Fromt TFA ""I've heard that Ted Rogers is not very happy," said the source, referring to the founder of Toronto-based Rogers Communications Inc., parent company of Rogers Wireless, the country's largest mobile phone provider."
Perfect! Where do I sign up? - KC311Man, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Did you actually read the story?
"Toronto joins a growing list of North American cities, including Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco, that have announced plans to bring low-cost, broadband wireless access to their citizens and businesses." - BritOverseas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Unfortunately, in the States, once (if) this all happens, I can see some Big ol' lawsuits coming from the Telcos, I believe there has already been some posturing to this end from them..
Lots of dummies (pacifiers) and blankies being thrown out of the pram (stroller) by them of course. Waaaahhhh, I can't afford my second beach house,,,waahhhhhhh
Oh and go Canada/Toronto, that is great news for them, this should be universal for EVERYWHERE! - jugaaru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This is good news, rogers sucks big time. We need more players in ISP arena.
- buss, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I wish things like this would happen in the US and our lawmakers weren't in bed with corporate interests. Canada, this is your formal invitation to invade.
- jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7By ANYTHING, do you mean ALL bit-torrent?
Rogers is throttling (actually, killing) BT traffic for almost all of their customers. It's the main reason why Azureus and utorrent have implemented a new encryption protocol for BT. - o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Next time I go to Toronto I'm bringing my Nintendo DS!
Man, I love Canada. - furiouszebra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Toronto is larger and capital of a larger province.
Just sayin'. - sc0re, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Bell sucks. Telus isn't too bad. I'm on Rogers (expensive) now out in Whitby and was actually surfing the real estate sites looking for a condo or apartment in Toronto when I saw this pop up in my RSS reader. This is way cool.
Love the new threaded commenting here on Digg, btw... - atrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yay... The ISP's in toronto are usless!
- Rogers is fast, but blocks BT
- Sympatico is sometimes fast, but can also be slow, and in some cases terrible connection. (My max is 120kb/s -> not bad, but should get 300)
hopefully it will be faster than 5kb/s though... - Kestral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The way I see it Montreal people get the better deal: Schwartz's Deli, Moish's Steak House, awesome night life, cheap rent, hot and friendly French Canadian girls, great European vibe to the city.
- ezkiel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yeah Seriously! Rogers has done enough.
Renaming the SkyDome was the final straw (and I'm not even an avid BlueJays fan) - MakinBacon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I was about to submit this story when I noticed squatto's digg. Fantastic news - I can finally kick Rogers to the curb!
- MegaSilver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Do you think they would possibly use the largest telecomunications tower in the world, broadcasting signals for miles around, the worlds tallest building? I think so!
http://www.cntower.ca/portal/ - pjh3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
Suck it Rogers. Suck it dry! - sixspeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Just when I thought Toronto couldn't get any cooler...
- cctoronto05, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5As you can probably imagine from my screen name: I love it!! I hate Rogers -- he/they suck a*s huge!
He was my inspiration to learn how to use BiTorrent and buy half a terabyte of HDD space, no cable!
and I use Ma Bell for mu Ultra HS Connection... F$%& Ted Rogers!
I look right into Ted's office accross the street, I'll update you on any temper tantrums he has!!
HEHEHEHEHE... - MattZed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4just because rogers is better than its competition, that doesnt mean that its the best..
- argusbargus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4... and the packet filtering and shaping. As of one hour ago, I switched from Rogers to Wireless Nomad (http://wirelessnomad.com/home/) - same price but better performance and more bells and whistles. Besides the high speed connection, it includes 5 wireless account for whatever area it covers downtown. They are up front about whatever you want to do with your Internet connection is your business, not theirs and they will not restrict you.
- TugsMcgroin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can't wait for the wifi whenever I need it. Suck it rogers. Suck it bell.
- fac3less, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Very wicked. :)
And here I was just about to move back to Florida.
Maybe I'll stick around in this cold, blasted hell a bit longer.. to get my wifi ;) - MegaSilver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't think the RIAA holds much strength in Canada. Psst... the second 'A' is America.
- farfromsubtl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, but apparently cheap.
- rijet0711, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Rogers deserves it. Even though you are talking about wireless data, Rogers basically has a cable monoply in Ontario. They throttle everything to where its basically unusable and are increasing the internet charges yet AGAIN!
- SoccerBoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This is great news for people on Toronto. I used to live there and hated Rogers. Hopefully this will work out for the best!
- gherikill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How does this work with tall buildings?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Figures... I just moved from Toronto to Vancouver.
- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thats right ted, you port throttling bastard. The bad PR from your corperate whoring attempts will cost you greatly.
- three60, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This is great news. Many, many people are sick of Rogers, particularly their ridiculous pricing.
- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you're having trouble downloading things from BT, just use utorrent or azerous and force encrypted packet headers on. I am able to finish downloads when there is a decent number of seeds on it (10 or greater, minimum). The more seeds tend to equal the more speed you get out, it all depends on who is allowing encypted packet connections. Does this mean rogers is saving bandwidth due to my reduced downloading speed? Heck no. I'm trying to support as many people with the same problem as I'm having, so I put it so seeding a LOT more than I used to. If anything, I'm using bittorrent even more than I used to.
Guys, if you're a bittorrent user and your computer is decent, allow us who are forced to use packet header encyption to download from you. It supports us who wish to use peer to peer and are limited by corperate jerks! - pippin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Toronto hopefully get the hotspot. montreal dosent. Montreall is cold but they have damn good BAGELSS!!! :)
Oh Yae and Rogers Sux why would they change the classic name from skydome to the Rogers centre ? i have lost all faith in Rogers!! ..well there dvd sevice is alright! - mattclare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Be Carefull - Rogers cuts Kevin and Leo a cheque (that's check in non-Canadian) every month for Call for Help. Don't let Ted Rogers know Kevin and Leo's relationship to digg!
- xNaquada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2move to a urban area then....
companies dont cater to the few, they cater to the many, where the greatest potential for profit exists. Alternatively, its alos like saying...
"Why dont they move Sick Kids Hospital next to my house in this rural area." it just doesent make sense. Dense populace needs access. - simplysic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Intenet in our age is an essential...now this is taxpayers money put in the right pocket.
Information on Demand...
Rogers and Bell can suck my bum - kkapoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thank god! I've had it with the Telecom Monopolies up here. Hopefully cellular will follow the same way!
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Damn it, why does Toronto always get the cool stuff like this before Montreal.
- farfromsubtl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3WOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! I've been waiting for this!
I hope Ted Rogers head explodes over this one. - billizm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Japan and Europe surpass the U.S. when it comes to cities being "techie" cities.
- farfromsubtl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, the wireless providers are just starting to roll-out "broadband" service for your laptop via pci card and cell phone combos. So it really DOES hurt them. That aside, I am sure many peopel will be willing to give up their "lite" cable broadband for cheaper, faster WiFi.
- Dradis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dude, one word: bagels.
Montreal's bagels have outstripped heroin as the most addictive substance on the face of the planet. - farfromsubtl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This combined with wifi enabled ipods or ipod-ish devices in the near future... oh my. Podcasts are the new media, period.
- bchang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am happier with rogers then i was with bell. Bell kept connecting me to montreal and it was really slow but now i can get steady 5.5 mbps before with bell i was getting 3.0 and paying for 6.0. So this is a step but if they can get fiber to the door i would be even happier.
- chopstickhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is great. Rogers definitely needs some competition. Their services are so expensive. I hope alot of people will be cancelling their Rogers internet for this municipal wi-fi service. It will help drive prices down so that internet access is more affordable for everyone.
- CouchTomato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FTFA - "..will likely install the necessary wireless transmitters and receivers atop every fourth or fifth lamp post as a way to blanket the city with coverage -- what the industry describes as "wireless mesh networking."
- TugsMcgroin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I didn't catch this in the article: will this be free?
- dbrodbeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That must be a recent change, I have used free wi fi at Pearson a number of times.
- dbrodbeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It leaps them with a single bound.....
- PhoneGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Rogers and Bell are not upset because it will interfere with their Internet services. The problem for them, is that wifi everywhere will compete directly with their VERY lucrative cellular data minutes. At $80 and up a month for most business plans, the ability to get your email on your laptop or PDA instead of your cell phone will hit cell providers hard in the bank account.
- pjh3000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Montreal rocks, but it's just too damn cold. The packets keep freezing!
- cyclo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1People are not just sick of Roger's high prices but also of their throttling of Bittorrent... If ever this plan becomes reality I know quite a few who would jump instantly off Rogers.
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