Videotron bring 120Mbps internet to Quebec City
Videotron’s new Ultimate Speed 120 Internet is rolling out in Quebec City today, making it the fastest residential internet access in Canada. At $159.95 (or $149.95 with a TV bundle), it’s not cheap, but for that price you’ll be getting 120Mbps download speeds and 20Mbps upload, which rightly sounds impressive. What’s not so impressive is that your monthly download capacity is limited to 170 GB, which is lower than some $30 DSL plans in the country. When you look at the numbers, that boils down to almost a dollar a gigabyte, which isn’t so great.
The 170 GB cap is much more in line with many of Rogers and Bell’s offerings. Also in line with Rogers and Bell is that Videotron is also in the TV delivery business. By having such restrictive caps, it’s a natural incentive to keep users from using internet based services such as iTunes and Netflix for content delivery, unless they’re willing to pay onerous overage fees.
In the end, it’s great to see various high speed internet technologies finally trickling out in Canada, but consumers should rightly be pissed off at the limited data caps. It’s really shameful that the ‘big guys’ (and Videotron is the Rogers of Quebec) are saddling customers
[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Doug Groves, rgbFilter. rgbFilter said: Videotron bring 120Mbps internet to Quebec City: Videotron’s new Ultimate Speed 120 Internet is rolling out in Que… http://bit.ly/auBPZG […]
733650 713160Youre so cool! I dont suppose Ive read anything in this way before. So good to uncover somebody with some original ideas on this topic. realy appreciate starting this up. this superb website is something that is required more than the internet, a person if we do originality. valuable work for bringing something new towards the web! 183650