Toto wrote:
jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca wrote:
A previous poster mentioned that because of the copper wire restriction, that they may deploy first in older centers. This would appear to be the case, since a Canadian telco (Sasktel) is offering ADSL in Saskatoon for 60$/month with unlimited internet access. Saskatoon falls into this category - in my opinion.
I was only is SK briefly over New Years, but perhaps Toto can fill in details.
James, SaskTel has, for the most part, always had a monopoly on the telephone business in Saskatchewan, and used this to keep the phone rates fairly high. On the other hand, they also used much of the money to position themselves to keep their monopoly by investing heavily in the newest technologies. As a result, they have a lot of fiber-optic, etc., even in the boondocks, but they also soaked those people $ 6.00 hour for InterNet access, until Sympatico came in with a competitive rate of less than $ 1.00/hour, and then they stopped clipping the sucker/citizens. SaskTel left the 'upgrading' of the larger centers to last, and as a result, their 'old' technology seems to be ironically beneficial to them in being able to offer ADSL in Saskatoon, Regina, and a couple of other centers.
Toto