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Not sure if this is a deal BUT rogers high speed users read this
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet...Story/Business/
Bell to boost DSL speed
By IAN JOHNSON
Globe and Mail Update
Firing the latest shot in the battle to attract high-speed Internet subscribers, Bell Canada says it will double the speed of its digital subscriber line (DSL) service early next year.
The company said it plans to boost the peak speed of its Sympatico High Speed Internet service for residential customers from the current peak of 1.5 megabits per second to as much as 3 Mbps. Bell Business Internet customers using the high-end 3 Mbps service will move to up to 4 Mbps, the company said. Upload speeds are also being pushed to 800 kilobits per second for both services, a five-fold increase.
The company said the price for its DSL services won't change, and "more than 75 per cent" of its business and residential high-speed customers will get the faster DSL service in the first quarter of 2004. It did not specify when the rest of its customers would be upgraded.
More than half of Bell's 1.4 million DSL subscribers use the Internet for bandwidth-intensive tasks such as on-line games and sharing digital photos, according to Charlotte Burke, senior vice-president of consumer Internet services at Bell Canada, while businesses are increasingly using their Net connections for things such as videoconferencing.
"By doubling our speed and increasing our upload performance, we give our customers a much larger door to the Internet," Ms. Burke said when announcing the DSL upgrade.
The last big change in the Canadian high-speed Internet access market came in the late spring of 2002, when the cable and telco providers adjusted their prices and offering "Light," "Standard" and "Professional" types of access bundles with varying speeds.
"They were concerned that prices in this market were among lowest in the world, and they felt they needed to rectify that and turn a profit," said Lawrence Surtees, director of telecom and Internet research for IDC Canada Ltd. in Toronto. "So they put in volume and tiered pricing, following within days of each other."
Since then, the companies have simplified the service tiers and reduced or eliminated the original upload/download bit caps after a consumer backlash.
Bell's speed increase comes close on the heels of a similar move by one of its major competitors, Rogers Cable. Last week, Rogers Hi-Speed Internet boosted its residential download speed to a peak of 3 Mbps (previously 1.5 Mbps), and its upload speed to as much as 384 Kbps (previously 192 Kbps). The peak download speed for Rogers Cable business customers was increased to 3 Mbps (previously 1.5 Mbps) and up to 640 Kbps (previously 192 Kbps) for uploads. The speed of the Rogers' Business Pro package was increased to a download peak of 4 Mbps (previously 3 Mbps), and to as much as 640 Kbps (previously 384 Kbps) for uploads.
Another Canadian high-speed cable Internet access company competing in Bell's service area, Cogeco, has been offering similar speeds for some time. Its standard package delivers up to 3 Mbps downloads and 400 Kbps uploads, while Cogeco's High Speed Internet Pro service offers up to 5 Mbps downloads and 640 Mbps uploads.
Shaw doesn't specify its upload and download speeds, but says its cable system offers "download speeds of up to 100 times faster than dial-up," which would be in excess of 5 Mbps.
When the upgrades to Bell's DSL services go into effect in the new year they will match cable download capacities, while Bell's uploads will be slightly faster than those of its cable competitors. But cable is also a shared network connection, which means speed can fluctuate depending on how many neighbours are on-line. DSL is a dedicated link for each home or business, so the bandwidth available tends to be more stable, although it does vary depending on factors such as how far the customer is from the telco's central switch.
"Bandwidth keeps coming down in price, but to understand why Rogers would have moved to 3 Mbps [downloads] now, you need to understand the difference between cable and telco high speed," IDC Canada's Mr. Surtees said. "Cable is shared, so on Rogers, Cogeco and Shaw cable, there are several other users sharing the drop. If there are several [neighbours] connected at the same time, our speeds are going to be reduced. So the cable guys have a strong incentive to boost their overall throughput so that when multiple users go on and speed falls down, more people will be experiencing speeds close to what's initially promised.
"Then the telcos say 'We're going to match it so our customers don't think they're getting rooked,'" Mr. Surtees added. "But if you really look at the difference in how the networks work, then the telcos have raised the bar here, because their 3 Mbps is really 3Mbps."
While competition in the Canadian high-speed Internet arena shows no signs of lessening, experts say it's unlikely Canada's cable and DSL companies will start a new price war any time soon.
"The cable and telco people were competing on price until both sides said 'Whoa, this is suicidal,' and they put the brakes on that," said Mr. Surtees. "I think they have no stomach for an all-out price war ... but there are still big rivalries between these two companies, and the action by Bell shows they're still intent on matching any offer the cable guys make."
Rather than lower Internet access fees in the coming months, he said consumers can expect more value-added services from their Internet service providers (ISPs), along with bundles for things like Internet access and cable or satellite television feeds.
"For the consumer, the prices [for Internet access in Canada] are among the best in the world, and now whether you're a cable or telco customer you can get twice as much speed for the same price. That's a pretty good deal," he said. "... And once you have that extra bandwidth, I'm sure the imaginative people [at the ISPs] will come up with some interesting applications and content to put with it."
Mr. Surtees adds that there are limits to how much bandwidth ISPs can offer on their current networks. Looking to the future, he pointed to fibre-optic systems in Japan that offer 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps of bandwidth to homes and business. He also noted fibre pilot projects in roughly 90 U.S. communities.
"Major, significant jumps in speed in the future will have to come in fibre replacement, and that's a ways out," he said.
In the meantime, the battle between DSL and cable ISPs is liable to remain heated in Canada.
"Cable had early lead over the sloth-like telcos, which had to play catch-up," Mr. Surtees said. But for the end of 2003, when we add up all the penetration numbers for the fourth quarter, I predict we should see DSL matching or exceeding cable modems for the first time nationally
不知道你怎么想，我是换定了
那个Rogers的流量限制弄的我很不爽，
虽然没找过我麻烦，不过总是觉得不安心
（我下载是以50G计算的）
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet...Story/Business/
Bell to boost DSL speed
By IAN JOHNSON
Globe and Mail Update
Firing the latest shot in the battle to attract high-speed Internet subscribers, Bell Canada says it will double the speed of its digital subscriber line (DSL) service early next year.
The company said it plans to boost the peak speed of its Sympatico High Speed Internet service for residential customers from the current peak of 1.5 megabits per second to as much as 3 Mbps. Bell Business Internet customers using the high-end 3 Mbps service will move to up to 4 Mbps, the company said. Upload speeds are also being pushed to 800 kilobits per second for both services, a five-fold increase.
The company said the price for its DSL services won't change, and "more than 75 per cent" of its business and residential high-speed customers will get the faster DSL service in the first quarter of 2004. It did not specify when the rest of its customers would be upgraded.
More than half of Bell's 1.4 million DSL subscribers use the Internet for bandwidth-intensive tasks such as on-line games and sharing digital photos, according to Charlotte Burke, senior vice-president of consumer Internet services at Bell Canada, while businesses are increasingly using their Net connections for things such as videoconferencing.
"By doubling our speed and increasing our upload performance, we give our customers a much larger door to the Internet," Ms. Burke said when announcing the DSL upgrade.
The last big change in the Canadian high-speed Internet access market came in the late spring of 2002, when the cable and telco providers adjusted their prices and offering "Light," "Standard" and "Professional" types of access bundles with varying speeds.
"They were concerned that prices in this market were among lowest in the world, and they felt they needed to rectify that and turn a profit," said Lawrence Surtees, director of telecom and Internet research for IDC Canada Ltd. in Toronto. "So they put in volume and tiered pricing, following within days of each other."
Since then, the companies have simplified the service tiers and reduced or eliminated the original upload/download bit caps after a consumer backlash.
Bell's speed increase comes close on the heels of a similar move by one of its major competitors, Rogers Cable. Last week, Rogers Hi-Speed Internet boosted its residential download speed to a peak of 3 Mbps (previously 1.5 Mbps), and its upload speed to as much as 384 Kbps (previously 192 Kbps). The peak download speed for Rogers Cable business customers was increased to 3 Mbps (previously 1.5 Mbps) and up to 640 Kbps (previously 192 Kbps) for uploads. The speed of the Rogers' Business Pro package was increased to a download peak of 4 Mbps (previously 3 Mbps), and to as much as 640 Kbps (previously 384 Kbps) for uploads.
Another Canadian high-speed cable Internet access company competing in Bell's service area, Cogeco, has been offering similar speeds for some time. Its standard package delivers up to 3 Mbps downloads and 400 Kbps uploads, while Cogeco's High Speed Internet Pro service offers up to 5 Mbps downloads and 640 Mbps uploads.
Shaw doesn't specify its upload and download speeds, but says its cable system offers "download speeds of up to 100 times faster than dial-up," which would be in excess of 5 Mbps.
When the upgrades to Bell's DSL services go into effect in the new year they will match cable download capacities, while Bell's uploads will be slightly faster than those of its cable competitors. But cable is also a shared network connection, which means speed can fluctuate depending on how many neighbours are on-line. DSL is a dedicated link for each home or business, so the bandwidth available tends to be more stable, although it does vary depending on factors such as how far the customer is from the telco's central switch.
"Bandwidth keeps coming down in price, but to understand why Rogers would have moved to 3 Mbps [downloads] now, you need to understand the difference between cable and telco high speed," IDC Canada's Mr. Surtees said. "Cable is shared, so on Rogers, Cogeco and Shaw cable, there are several other users sharing the drop. If there are several [neighbours] connected at the same time, our speeds are going to be reduced. So the cable guys have a strong incentive to boost their overall throughput so that when multiple users go on and speed falls down, more people will be experiencing speeds close to what's initially promised.
"Then the telcos say 'We're going to match it so our customers don't think they're getting rooked,'" Mr. Surtees added. "But if you really look at the difference in how the networks work, then the telcos have raised the bar here, because their 3 Mbps is really 3Mbps."
While competition in the Canadian high-speed Internet arena shows no signs of lessening, experts say it's unlikely Canada's cable and DSL companies will start a new price war any time soon.
"The cable and telco people were competing on price until both sides said 'Whoa, this is suicidal,' and they put the brakes on that," said Mr. Surtees. "I think they have no stomach for an all-out price war ... but there are still big rivalries between these two companies, and the action by Bell shows they're still intent on matching any offer the cable guys make."
Rather than lower Internet access fees in the coming months, he said consumers can expect more value-added services from their Internet service providers (ISPs), along with bundles for things like Internet access and cable or satellite television feeds.
"For the consumer, the prices [for Internet access in Canada] are among the best in the world, and now whether you're a cable or telco customer you can get twice as much speed for the same price. That's a pretty good deal," he said. "... And once you have that extra bandwidth, I'm sure the imaginative people [at the ISPs] will come up with some interesting applications and content to put with it."
Mr. Surtees adds that there are limits to how much bandwidth ISPs can offer on their current networks. Looking to the future, he pointed to fibre-optic systems in Japan that offer 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps of bandwidth to homes and business. He also noted fibre pilot projects in roughly 90 U.S. communities.
"Major, significant jumps in speed in the future will have to come in fibre replacement, and that's a ways out," he said.
In the meantime, the battle between DSL and cable ISPs is liable to remain heated in Canada.
"Cable had early lead over the sloth-like telcos, which had to play catch-up," Mr. Surtees said. But for the end of 2003, when we add up all the penetration numbers for the fourth quarter, I predict we should see DSL matching or exceeding cable modems for the first time nationally
不知道你怎么想，我是换定了
那个Rogers的流量限制弄的我很不爽，
虽然没找过我麻烦，不过总是觉得不安心
（我下载是以50G计算的）
